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Julian Schrittwieser
Personal blog · furidamu.org/blogaiprogramming
Julian Schrittwieser writes furidamu, a personal blog at furidamu.org about ai and programming. Since 2012, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “The Case Against the Singularity”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Julian Schrittwieser's blog covers DeepMind's AlphaGo work, error handling in code, and AI game complexity. HN commenters link its AlphaGo replays and post on AI game complexity, and one disputes that post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Posts and writings by Julian Schrittwieser
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/2017/01/28/error-handling-with-statusor/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-28
- /blog/2016/01/26/mastering-the-game-of-go-with-deep-neural-networks-and-tree-search/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-27
- The Case Against the Singularity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-29
- An Intuitive Explanation of MuZero2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-24
- The Strong Turing Test2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-08
- Being Productive2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-15
What Hacker News says?
You can see replays on this blog post: http://www.furidamu.org/blog/2016/01/26/mastering-the-game-o...
Comment linking /blog/2016/01/26/mastering-the-game-of-go-with-deep-neural-networks-and-tree-search/
on “Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion”Submitted Protecting Your Mails With GnuPG as a story · 75 points
HN discussionOur paper: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v529/n7587/full/nature1... Video from Nature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-dKXOlsf98&feature=youtu.be Video from us at DeepMind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUbqykXVx0A edit: For those saying it's still a long way to beat the strongest player - we are playing Lee Sedol, probably the strongest Go player, in March: http://deepmind.com/alpha-go.html . That site a…
Comment linking /blog/2016/01/26/mastering-the-game-of-go-with-deep-neural-networks-and-tree-search/
on “Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion”Submitted Being Productive as a story · 67 points
HN discussiontl;dr: Don't use Either<L, R> for error handling, it's too general. Use StatusOr<T>. More details: http://www.furidamu.org/blog/2017/01/28/error-handling-with-...
Comment linking /blog/2017/01/28/error-handling-with-statusor/
on “Java Without If”Submitted The Strong Turing Test as a story · 2 points
HN discussion>There's really no proof that systems written in Rust have better reliability compared to systems written in Java, Typescript or PHP, is there? I am not here to prove mathematically that Rust results in more correct programs than PHP. I am here to claim that I believe that it does. To me one of the biggest obstacles to writing correct code is not just memory safety. It's preventing unintended uses of code. It's hand…
Comment linking /blog/2017/01/28/error-handling-with-statusor/
on “Rust – Compile Time Memory Safety”Submitted MuZero Intuition as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe author keeps referring to the "PSPACE" complexity of chess and Go in the context of AlphaGo; this is incorrect - these games are only PSPACE for arbitrary large board size N, at fixed board size as actually used by humans and current AI they are just constant O(1), complexity class is not relevant for this. The article was also written before the best evidence we currently have for this was published: scaling la…
Comment linking /blog/2020/05/03/the-case-against-the-singularity/
on “Complexity No Bar to AI”Submitted Discovering Matrix Multiplication Algorithms with AlphaTensor as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI came across this a few days ago: For Reinforcement Learning specifically, the standard text is Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction[1]. Dave's UCL Course on RL[2] is great too (playlist of all lectures)[3]. Source: Julian Schrittwieser works on Deepmind at Google http://www.furidamu.org/ [1] http://incompleteideas.net/book/the-book-2nd.html [2] http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/d.silver/web/Teaching.html [3] https…
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on “Dopamine framework: Fast prototyping of reinforcement learning algorithms (2018)”Submitted An Intuitive Explanation of MuZero as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Case Against the Singularity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Being Productive as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Strong Turing Test as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our lives are measured by memorable moments as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted MuZero Intuition as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Walk Around Umbrella Revolution as a story · 1 points
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