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Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology
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Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology is a personal blog at jabde.com about data, ai and writing. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for offbeat science and data-analysis posts, such as the banned violin plots post, a banana fission reactor, and using LLMs for data decompression. The comments do not evaluate the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
https://jabde.com/2022/07/29/immaterials-and-methods-reagent...
Comment linking /2022/07/29/immaterials-and-methods-reagents-for-the-total-laboratory-synthesis-of-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/
on “Let's order strange things from NIST”Submitted A Time-Series Analysis of My Girlfriends Mood Swings as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLLMs are great at decompression [1] [1] https://jabde.com/2026/02/02/utilizing-llms-as-a-data-decomp...
Comment linking /2026/02/02/utilizing-llms-as-a-data-decompression-scheme/
on “Meta's Embrace of A.I. Is Making Its Employees Miserable”Submitted Are You an Engineer/Programmer? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBanana nuclear reactor? https://jabde.com/2022/11/06/banana-fission-reactor/
Comment linking /2022/11/06/banana-fission-reactor/
on “Researchers craft a fully edible battery”Violin plots have an interesting reputation ( https://xkcd.com/1967/ , https://www.reddit.com/r/labrats/comments/91ex4u/is_it_just_... , https://jabde.com/2022/12/22/banned-violin-plots/ ). For showing distributions, I much prefer strip plots ( https://seaborn.pydata.org/generated/seaborn.stripplot.html ), perhaps with opacity, or swarm plots ( https://seaborn.pydata.org/generated/seaborn.swarmplot.html ) - no avera…
Comment linking /2022/12/22/banned-violin-plots/
on “Plotnine”