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Jiaaro
Personal blog · jiaaro.com · on HN as jiaaroprogrammingaiweb
Jiaaro is a personal blog at jiaaro.com about programming, ai and web. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “K Nearest-Neighbor for Humans”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts on Python performance and data structures, including how ctypes arrays and structures compare for speed. Only one comment discusses them, and it is a hedged exchange about benchmarks.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- K Nearest-Neighbor for Humans2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-03-26
What Hacker News says?
Response to edit: you may be right, I don't have time to do comprehensive benchmarking now. I never use ctypes on its own, but rather always with an external library. I assumed that the ctypes Structures in a ctypes array would be faster because its stored contiguously, but it's possible that is incorrect. I'll have to come back to this later when I have time. I stand by my assertion that ctypes along with an extern…
Comment linking /python-performance-the-easyish-way/
on “Why Python Runs Slow, Part 1: Data Structures”Submitted Python performance the easy(ish) way as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google+ is good, but don't switch [from Facebook] to it as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted K Nearest-Neighbor for Humans as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Machine Learning for Humans: K Nearest-Neighbor as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Good Idea Lottery as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted OS X Devs Fail Usability: Tabbing Hotkeys as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Machine Learning for Humans: K Nearest-Neighbor as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python/Javascript - Deferred Processing trick/hack as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blocking Content Blocking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The myth of pervasive Internet & why “offline mode” is the best free marketing… as a story · 1 points
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