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Felix Lau
Personal blog · felixlaumon.github.ioaidata
Felix Lau's personal blog at felixlaumon.github.io covers ai and data. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Kaggle Right Whale and Deep Neural Networks (2nd Place Winner)”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Felix Lau's 2015 write-up of the Kaggle Right Whale competition as an example of a neural net latching onto wave patterns on the water instead of the whales.
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?
- Kaggle Right Whale and Deep Neural Networks (2nd Place Winner)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-13
What Hacker News says?
Another more modern and well-documented example of this would seem to occur in a 2015 write-up of the "Right Whale" competition in Kaggle: http://felixlaumon.github.io/2015/01/08/kaggle-right-whale.h... Contrary to this author's claims, despite using data augmentation and a fancy modern CNN, a neural network trained to identify whales hit a local optimum where it looked at patterns in waves on the water to identify…
Comment linking /2015/01/08/kaggle-right-whale.html
on “The Neural Net Tank Urban Legend”Submitted Recognizing and Localizing Right Whales with Extremely Deep Neural Networks as a story · 77 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kaggle Right Whale and Deep Neural Networks (2nd Place Winner) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion
