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François Maillet

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François Maillet's personal blog at blog.francoismaillet.com covers ai and programming. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “NHL goal celebration hack: real-time machine learning and hue light show”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
4HN people?
2015–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a data science project about NHL goal celebrations, which one commenter recalls as a fun read and a good way to get exposure to machine learning.

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.

I am a computer scientist specializing in building machine learning powered products. I’m currently a machine learning developer at Local Logic.

Most-linked posts?

  1. NHL goal celebration hack: real-time machine learning and hue light show
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-04-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. stickperson · 2015-07-16Recommends
    Absolutely. I remember seeing an "Epic NHL goal celebration" post on here a little while ago. That was a fun read and seemed like a good project to get some exposure to ML. http://blog.francoismaillet.com/epic-celebration/

    Comment linking /epic-celebration/

    on “How to learn data science”
  2. Submitted NHL goal celebration hack: real-time machine learning and hue light show as a story · 258 points

    HN discussion
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  4. Submitted Actually, Marty Didn’t Go Back to the Future: Graphing the Train Scene of BTTF3 as a story · 98 points

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  5. Submitted Human augmentation through artificial intelligence as a story · 2 points

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  6. Submitted Hacking an epic NHL goal celebration with a hue light show and machine learning as a story · 1 points

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