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Gregory J. Stein
Personal blog · cachestocaches.comaiprogrammingproductivity
Gregory J. Stein writes cachestocaches, a personal blog at cachestocaches.com about ai, programming and productivity. Since 2015, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 50 times, most often “Guide to email in Emacs using mu and mu4e”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Gregory J. Stein's guides to setting up email in Emacs, mainly the mu4e complete guide. Commenters cite it as a setup reference for reading mail in the terminal.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Guide to email in Emacs using mu and mu4e6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2017-03-02
- For AI, translation is about more than language2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-09-03
- Vim Within Emacs: An Anecdotal Guide2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-12-21
- My Workflow with Org-Agenda2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-14
What Hacker News says?
For those of you already using emacs, this mirrors my workflow in mu4e. Here are some screenshots[0], and here is a guide on how to set up mu4e[1]. [0] https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html [1] http://cachestocaches.com/2017/3/complete-guide-email-emacs-...
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on “Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal”Submitted My Favorite Deep Learning Papers of 2017 as a story · 172 points
HN discussionBe careful with font recommendations that aren't really geared for the web! Tufte is pretty particular about the fonts in his book, but they don't transfer well to the web. I also liked the tufts-css style, but ended up rolling my own, so that the widths worked out to be a bit more typographically "acceptable" (shameless plug for my blog layout: http://www.cachestocaches.com/2017/3/complete-guide-email-em... )
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on “Ask HN: Has attracting a blog audience become harder?”Submitted Guide to email in Emacs using mu and mu4e as a story · 167 points
HN discussionLove the Tufte style. One real limitation, however, is the "mobile view" in which the margin notes collapse into clickable superscript numbers. I don't think it's clear to most readers that one is supposed to click on those to expand them, meaning they aren't likely read by perhaps 50% of your readers. One thing I've seen, and adapted for my own site [1], is inserting these margin notes beneath the paragraph in mobi…
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on “Show HN: A minimalist blog based on Tufte CSS”Submitted Have You Tried Using a Nearest Neighbor Search? as a story · 87 points
HN discussionEmail in Emacs has come a long way in the past few years. http://cachestocaches.com/2017/3/complete-guide-email-emacs-...
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on “Disqus comments adding third-party ad-tracking”Submitted The “Myths List” is a communication antipattern as a story · 64 points
HN discussionI was a paralegal a number of years back and, due to my experience as a coder, I was able to automate a bunch of my responsibilities. Much of the job of a paralegal (and some of the responsibilities of a lawyer) are things like data entry and records keeping that are trivially automated. One of my most popular tasks was to take data from Doc X in format A and move it to Doc Y in format B. Some string parsing (with h…
Comment linking /2016/2/how-we-teach-programming/
on “Should lawyers learn to code? Arguments for and against”Submitted How We Teach Programming, and Where We're Going Wrong as a story · 57 points
HN discussion> “We need”, Jure said emphatically, “to step up and come up with the means to evaluate – vet – algorithms in unbiased ways. We need to be able to interpret and explain their decisions. We don’t want an optimal algorithm. We want one simple enough that an expert can look at it and say nothing crazy is happening here. As someone who works with machine learning, I find this statement rather misleading. The researcher…
Comment linking /2018/7/bias-and-ai/
on “The hidden reality of ridiculously complicated algorithms”Submitted For AI, translation is about more than language as a story · 48 points
HN discussionThey are a bit all over the place - I started this years ago so I don't really have anything solid, but searching gives a few results that looks pretty solid ([1] [2]). If you temporarily tried doom [3], I think you could see how it would work for you. You need to install something like isync as well so you have a mailbox index locally. I would start with just one account - multiple accounts is a bit more effort. In…
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on “Ask HN: Is the state of mail user agents that sad?”Submitted Practical Guidelines for Getting Started with Machine Learning as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI would recommend giving mu4e a try. It is pretty fast and you can also use mu too. If you need help initially getting things setup: http://cachestocaches.com/2017/3/complete-guide-email-emacs-... https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/12927/reading-and-... A good benefit to using these terminal based type apps is you are able to see more information up front so you are not so susceptible to web based phishing ex…
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on “Ask HN: Email on Linux?”Submitted Y.A.U.S. (Yet Another Uber Scandal) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Workflow with Org-Agenda as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Managing My Annotated Bibliography with Emacs' Org Mode as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Guide to My Organizational Workflow: How to Streamline Your Life as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Valley of AI Trust as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Machine Learning and Robotics: My (Biased) 2019 State of the Field as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted DeepMind's AlphaZero and the Real World as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Importance of Simulation in the Age of Deep Learning as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Enhancing Websites with Clear Visual Design as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vim Within Emacs: An Anecdotal Guide as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A guide to my organizational workflow as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Let Your Hobbies Die (2019) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Bottom Third as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Talk figures are different from paper figures as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Anyone sufficiently experienced is indistinguishable from a magician as a story · 2 points
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