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Degenerate State is a personal blog at degeneratestate.org about data, science and ai. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Heavy Metal and Natural Language Processing”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.

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2016–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2016

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Why HN links it

HN readers link this post on heavy metal and natural language processing, which clusters band lyrics and lists each band's most representative songs. Comments mainly flag errors in its chart.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Heavy Metal and Natural Language Processing
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-07-02
  2. Heavy Metal and Natural Language Processing – Part 2
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. I noticed there was song data errors in places - for example, in this chart ( http://www.degeneratestate.org/static/metal_lyrics/clusters.... ), in the most representative songs for Tiamat, it lists White Pearl, Black Oceans. That is a song by Sonata Arctica. It also lists 3 versions of the same song for Nightwish in most representative songs (Elan). Similar mistakes are made for various bands in that chart (Symphon…

    Comment linking /static/metal_lyrics/clusters.html

    on “Heavy Metal and Natural Language Processing”
  2. Submitted Heavy Metal and Natural Language Processing as a story · 247 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Causal inference using frontdoor adjustment as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Heavy Metal and Natural Language Processing – Part 2 as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Heavy Metal and Natural Language Processing – Part 1 as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted An Introduction to Causal Inference with Python as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Heavy Metal and Natural Language Processing – Part 2 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted An Introduction to Causal Graphical Models in Python as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Turing Patterns as a story · 1 points

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