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Jason Toy
Personal blog · jtoy.net · on HN as toisanjiaiprogrammingdesign
Jason Toy's personal blog at jtoy.net covers ai, programming and design. Since 2009, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “Deep reinforcement learning is a waste of time (2019)”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Most-linked posts?
- Deep reinforcement learning is a waste of time (2019)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-12-30
- Grounded Language2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-07-13
- Why do event sites suck? (2009)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-01
What Hacker News says?
I worked on a similar project but was generating graphics code with both java and ruby: http://www.jtoy.net/projects/sketchnet/
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on “Turning web design mockups into code with Deep Learning”Submitted Deep reinforcement learning is a waste of time (2019) as a story · 95 points
HN discussionI built a robot with tensorflow running on the raspberry pi to do autonomous driving and computer vision: http://www.jtoy.net/portfolio/ I'm working on the next version to make it more useful, but all the technology is not there yet, I want the robot to be able to understand speech and talk back to users. I also want the robot to be able to play games with people. I think the platform has a lot of potential. I want…
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on “Google planning to bring AI and ML tools to Raspberry Pi”Submitted Why do event sites suck? as a story · 35 points
HN discussionI love p5js, I recommend it all the time for new programmers because it allows you to to program something immediately and to see feedback in real time. Here are hundreds of little programs I wrote for fun: https://concepts.jtoy.net/ http://www.jtoy.net/sketches/
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on “P5.js – A library to make coding accessible for artists, designers, educators”Submitted Deep Reinforcement Learning is a waste of time as a story · 21 points
HN discussionI love processing and p5. this is a collection of some of my drawings: https://somatic.io/ http://www.jtoy.net/sketches/ If you are trying to teach people how to program, I recommend using processing/p5. Its also a great language to improve your mathematical thinking.
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on “Processing and P5 got newbies into coding”Submitted Running Hacks as a story · 12 points
HN discussiongood job! this might still be relevant: http://www.jtoy.net/2009/09/11/events-idea.html
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on “Show HN: Yet another (faster) way to discover events nearby”Submitted Machine learning is still missing a key ingredient as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI would like to see deep learning working with embodied cognition somehow: http://www.jtoy.net/blog/grounded_language.html
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on “Deep learning meets vector-symbolic AI”Submitted New years resolutions as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI agree with what you are saying. I tried to test out of building a body for computers as an experiment to give meaning to computers: http://www.jtoy.net/blog/grounded_language.html
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on “Reward Is Unnecessary [pdf]”Submitted Why you should learn graphics programming as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deep Reinforcement Learning is a waste of time as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Concepts, invariant memories, and machine learning as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why do event sites suck? (2009) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A new Twitter interface - no more information overload as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ebooks and ebook readers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Delicious to instapaper sinatra app as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Grounded Language as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Grounded Language Learning and Simulation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted My experience working with Processing and p5.js as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blueprints for machine learning robots as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple benefit corporation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The machine learning challenge at apple as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Neuroscience based startups as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On helen keller and computer intelligence as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On the science of changing minds as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Here is how you fix America's science education problem as a story · 1 points
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