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Personal blog · blog.dimroc.comprogrammingdata

dimroc is a personal blog at blog.dimroc.com about programming and data. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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2015–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2015

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Why HN links it

Linked from a HN thread about Count, a machine learning company that quantifies data in photos, video and sound. The creators' comment describes their real-time Shake Shack line counter as a first experiment.

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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Hi everyone! This is Dimitri and Steve, the creators of Count: a machine learning company looking to quantify the organic data inside photos, video, and sound. Anybody that has lived in Manhattan understands the dynamics of the Shake Shack line in Madison Square Park. We thought it would be fun to practice our craft quantifying the Shake Shack line in real-time as our first experiment. If you are interested in the t…

    Comment linking /2017/11/19/counting-crowds-and-lines/

    on “Count: Real-Time Shake Shack Line Counter”
  2. Submitted ETL Language Showdown Part 3 as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Using Twitter API to Beat the [Wall] Street as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted AWS Machine Learning through rake (2017) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Comparing Golang, Scala, Elixir, Ruby, and Now Python3 for ETL as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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