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Gaël Varoquaux
Personal blog · gael-varoquaux.info/programmingprogrammingdatascience
Gaël Varoquaux's personal blog at gael-varoquaux.info covers programming, data and science. Since 2009, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for machine learning writing, including a post comparing ICA and PCA. It is also listed among machine learning blogs kept by scikit-learn users.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Gaël Varoquaux, computer / data / health science
What Hacker News says?
Relatedly, from a colleague for whom I have a lot of respect: http://gael-varoquaux.info/science/ica_vs_pca.html
Comment linking /science/ica_vs_pca.html
on “A tutorial on Principal Component Analysis”Submitted Getting a scientific prize for open-source software as a story · 142 points
HN discussionOther blogs by sklearners: http://peekaboo-vision.blogspot.fr/ http://www.mblondel.org/journal/category/machine-learning/ http://gael-varoquaux.info/blog/?cat=20 http://fseoane.net/blog/ http://blog.vene.ro/
Comment linking /blog/?cat=20
on “Why use SVM”Submitted A foundation for scikit-learn at Inria as a story · 78 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software for reproducible science: let’s not have a misunderstanding as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Update on scikit-learn: recent developments for machine learning in Python as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted SciPy 2009 is over as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Technical discussions are hard; a few tips as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scikit-learn development sprint post-mortem as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted People underestimate how impactful scikit learn continues to be as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data science instrumenting social media for ads, responsible for todays politics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beyond computational reproducibility, let us aim for reusability as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A journal promoting high-quality research code: dream and reality as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The problems of low statistical power and publication bias as a story · 1 points
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