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Daniel Bourke
Personal blog · mrdbourke.comaiculture
Daniel Bourke's personal blog at mrdbourke.com covers ai and culture. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “What if you did the exact opposite?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Daniel Bourke's posts for an analogy about exploration versus maintenance and for a machine-learning benchmark of Apple M3 laptops against older Nvidia and Tesla GPUs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The official blog of Daniel Bourke. I play at the crossroads of artificial intelligence, health science, life and art.
Most-linked posts?
- What if you did the exact opposite?2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-05-19
What Hacker News says?
Both are necessary. I think the difference is that Group A (keep things running) without Group B (explore new territory) would have kept us in the stone ages. However, that is not to understate their importance: a humanity consisting entirely of Group B would be much more unstable, and possibly have gone extinct. It's similar to the Rogue Bees: https://www.mrdbourke.com/what-if-you-did-the-exact-opposite... Although…
Comment linking /what-if-you-did-the-exact-opposite-like-the-rogue-bees-do/
on “How to Do Great Work”Submitted Five Day Fast as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt entirely depends on workload. This blog has a diligent mixed-model comparison of the M3 laptops lined up against the Titan RTX (2019) and Tesla V100 (2017): https://www.mrdbourke.com/apple-m3-machine-learning-test/
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on “AMD 8000G APUs launch Jan 31, $329 8700G competes with desktop GTX1650 in gaming”Submitted What if you did the exact opposite? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Unofficial PyTorch Optimization Loop Song as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What if you did the exact opposite? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rejected as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
