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Jack Kelly
Personal blog · jack-kelly.com/blogscienceai
Jack Kelly's personal blog at jack-kelly.com covers science and ai. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-19, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
The linked post argues that Matlab is oversold as a general-purpose programming language. Other linked posts in the thread cover choosing a programming language.
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 try to mitigate climate change using computer science. I co-founded Open Climate Fix, a non-profit research lab focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Previously, I was a Research Engineer at DeepMind, where I used machine learning to predict wind power.
What Hacker News says?
If this were better written and had a proper sense of proportion, it could be good. But it's not, and it comes off like ranting. Next. E.g., here's a note from the implementors of a probabilistic modeling toolkit, which prominently includes Kevin Murphy [ http://code.google.com/p/pmtk3/wiki/WhyMatlab ] and here's a note from someone vacillating between several languages [ http://jack-kelly.com/which_programming_lang…
Comment linking /which_programming_language_for_my_disaggregation_system_matlab
on “Matlab is oversold as a general-purpose language”Submitted Starting a non-profit research lab to help fix climate change ASAP as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Get Involved with Open Climate Fix as a story · 1 points
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