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Ethan Rosenthal
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Ethan Rosenthal's personal blog at ethanrosenthal.com covers data, programming and career. Since 2020, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Optimal Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ethan Rosenthal's machine learning posts, including a 2023 piece on nearest neighbour versus approximate nearest neighbour search and a 2020 post on optimal peanut butter and banana sandwiches. Commenters cite them as references.
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?
- Optimal Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-25
- Do you need a vector database?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-13
What Hacker News says?
There's one for bananas on bread. https://www.ethanrosenthal.com/2020/08/25/optimal-peanut-but...
Comment linking /2020/08/25/optimal-peanut-butter-and-banana-sandwiches/
on “Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions”Submitted Optimal Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches as a story · 319 points
HN discussioncool project, i was curious which algorithms are used for recommendations/ranking, couldn't find it in the docs, so had to go through the code, may be add a section on algorithms and models? it seems that one algo used is "Bayesian Personal Ranking" based on a paper from 2012 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.2618.pdf , here is a related blog post https://towardsdatascience.com/recommender-system-using-baye... another one…
Comment linking /2016/10/19/implicit-mf-part-1/
on “Show HN: Gorse – An Out-of-the-box open-source Recommender System”Submitted Why can't we separate YAML from ML? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionInteresting. To be honest, I do not think everyone needs its own vector database [1]. [1] https://www.ethanrosenthal.com/2023/04/10/nn-vs-ann/
Comment linking /2023/04/10/nn-vs-ann/
on “Show HN: Vector database plugin for Postgres, written in Rust”Submitted Doing Freelance Data Science Consulting in 2019 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Starting Up and Shutting Down, Quickly as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Big Company Bachelor's as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do you need a vector database? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data scientists work alone and that's bad as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let's Continue Bundling into the Database as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bayesian Rock Climbing Rankings as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything Gets a Package: My Python Data Science Setup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sandwich Data Science 2: Electric Boogaloo as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Feature Stores for Self-Service Machine Learning as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimal Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches Using Deep Learning as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Starting Up and Shutting Down, Quickly as a story · 1 points
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