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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.

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32mentions?
6HN people?
2009–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2015

The author on HN?

toisanji · 983 karma · member since 2007

http://jtoy.net http://twitter.com/jtoy https://www.youtube.com/@studyturtlehq email jtoy AT jtoy.net

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Deep reinforcement learning is a waste of time (2019)
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-12-30
  2. Grounded Language
    2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-07-13
  3. Why do event sites suck? (2009)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. I worked on a similar project but was generating graphics code with both java and ruby: http://www.jtoy.net/projects/sketchnet/

    Comment linking /projects/sketchnet/

    on “Turning web design mockups into code with Deep Learning”
  2. Submitted Deep reinforcement learning is a waste of time (2019) as a story · 95 points

    HN discussion
  3. I 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…

    Comment linking /portfolio/

    on “Google planning to bring AI and ML tools to Raspberry Pi”
  4. Submitted Why do event sites suck? as a story · 35 points

    HN discussion
  5. I 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/

    Comment linking /sketches/

    on “P5.js – A library to make coding accessible for artists, designers, educators”
  6. Submitted Deep Reinforcement Learning is a waste of time as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  7. I 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.

    Comment linking /sketches/

    on “Processing and P5 got newbies into coding”
  8. Submitted Running Hacks as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  9. good job! this might still be relevant: http://www.jtoy.net/2009/09/11/events-idea.html

    Comment linking /2009/09/11/events-idea.html

    on “Show HN: Yet another (faster) way to discover events nearby”
  10. Submitted Machine learning is still missing a key ingredient as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  11. I would like to see deep learning working with embodied cognition somehow: http://www.jtoy.net/blog/grounded_language.html

    Comment linking /blog/grounded_language.html

    on “Deep learning meets vector-symbolic AI”
  12. Submitted New years resolutions as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  13. I 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

    Comment linking /blog/grounded_language.html

    on “Reward Is Unnecessary [pdf]”
  14. Submitted Why you should learn graphics programming as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Deep Reinforcement Learning is a waste of time as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Concepts, invariant memories, and machine learning as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted Why do event sites suck? (2009) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted A new Twitter interface - no more information overload as a story · 2 points

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  19. Submitted Ebooks and ebook readers as a story · 2 points

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  20. Submitted Delicious to instapaper sinatra app as a story · 2 points

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  21. Submitted Grounded Language as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted On Grounded Language Learning and Simulation as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted My experience working with Processing and p5.js as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Blueprints for machine learning robots as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Apple benefit corporation as a story · 1 points

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  26. Submitted The machine learning challenge at apple as a story · 1 points

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  27. Submitted Neuroscience based startups as a story · 1 points

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  28. Submitted On helen keller and computer intelligence as a story · 1 points

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  29. Submitted On the science of changing minds as a story · 1 points

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  30. Submitted Here is how you fix America's science education problem as a story · 1 points

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