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Jacob Jackson

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Jacob Jackson's personal blog at jacobjackson.com covers ai and programming. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Searching for Style”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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8mentions?
6HN people?
2018–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2018

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Jacob Jackson's personal site for his machine learning blog posts and his background, including his time at OpenAI and his work on the Same Energy image search.

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.

Hi, I’m Jacob. Until December 2020, I worked at OpenAI. Now I work on a visual search engine called Same Energy.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Searching for Style
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-09-15
  2. TabNine's first month in review
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-12-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. Ah, thanks for the insight! It seems though that he is no longer working with OpenAI according to his personal website[0]. [0]: https://jacobjackson.com/about

    Comment linking /about

    on “GitHub Copilot”
  2. Submitted Why do we use cross entropy and mean squared error? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. The about page mentions, https://same.energy/about Same Energy's core search uses deep learning. The most similar published work is CLIP by OpenAI. He worked at OpenAI, and has written a few blog posts on ML topics. https://jacobjackson.com/

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    on “Same.energy: Image Search by Similarity”
  4. Submitted TabNine's first month in review as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Searching for Style as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted TabNine's first month in review as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Searching for Style as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Searching for Style as a story · 1 points

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