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David Simmons-Duffin
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David Simmons-Duffin's personal blog at davidsd.org covers science and math. Since 2010, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Honda Needs a Tune-Up (2008)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link his posts on context-free grammars and generated text, including the Snarxiv overview and a note on the Honda musical road's miscalculated grooves. One commenter calls the Snarxiv About page a fun overview.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Honda Needs a Tune-Up (2008)4 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2015-11-28
- /2010/03/the-snarxiv/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-06-07
What Hacker News says?
Unfortunately, there was a miscalculation in the distance between grooves that meant the musical road didn't play the right notes: http://davidsd.org/2008/12/honda-needs-a-tune-up/
Comment linking /2008/12/honda-needs-a-tune-up/
on “New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David Lynch movie”Submitted Honda Needs a Tune-Up (2008) as a story · 95 points
HN discussionYou can use a context-free grammar to produce amusing and sometimes convincing writing if the writing style it's intended to imitate is sufficiently obtuse, e.g.: http://davidsd.org/2009/01/the-real-theorem-generator-a-cont... http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
Comment linking /2009/01/the-real-theorem-generator-a-context-free-grammar/
on ““A spambot barfed its post recipe on my blog””Submitted Honda Needs a Tune-Up (2008) as a story · 49 points
HN discussionTheir 'About' page gives a fun overview of context-free grammars: http://davidsd.org/2010/03/the-snarxiv/
Comment linking /2010/03/the-snarxiv/
on “Arxiv vs Snarxiv”Submitted How Honda screwed up an expensive project with a simple math error (2008) as a story · 33 points
HN discussionImplementation details and further information: http://davidsd.org/2010/03/the-snarxiv/
Comment linking /2010/03/the-snarxiv/
on “Arxiv vs Snarxiv”Submitted Honda Needs a Tune Up (2008) as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lie Group Computations With Python as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Honda Needs a Tune-Up (2008) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A quantification of arXiv title intelligibility (2010) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Honda Needs a Tune-Up (2008) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The ArXiv According to ArXiv vs. SnarXiv (2010) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Honda Needs a Tune-Up (2008) as a story · 1 points
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