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Eryk Banatt
Personal blog · planetbanatt.net/articlesgamesai
Eryk Banatt's personal blog at planetbanatt.net covers games and ai. Since 2018, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Model Merging and You”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link planetbanatt.net for explanatory articles on machine learning and probability, including an overview of how MLA works in DeepSeek-R1, a Fermi estimate for DeepSeek's GPU hours, and why human randomness is not random.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Model Merging and You2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-09
- Making Sense of Super Smash Bros. Melee2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-29
What Hacker News says?
https://planetbanatt.net/articles/mla.html this is a great overview of how MLA works.
Comment linking /articles/mla.html
on “The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1”Submitted Making Sense of Super Smash Bros. Melee as a story · 172 points
HN discussionYou can easily do a fermi estimate based on the information given. They are comparing GPU hours. See: https://planetbanatt.net/articles/v3fermi.html
Comment linking /articles/v3fermi.html
on “DeepSeek could represent Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's worst nightmare”Submitted Making Sense of Smash Bros. Melee: The Illusion of Objective Ranks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere’s a basic approach to this using markov chains which works surprisingly well. Scott Aaronson once challenged some students to beat his algorithm — only one student could, who claimed he just “used his free will”. Human randomness isn’t so random. There’s a neat little writeup about it here: https://planetbanatt.net/articles/freewill.html
Comment linking /articles/freewill.html
on “Claude Shannon's randomness-guessing machine”Submitted Model Merging and You as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everyone Should Play Games as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Model Merging and You as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Modern LLMs via DeepSeek as a story · 1 points
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