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Junaid Mubeen
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Junaid Mubeen's personal blog at fjmubeen.com. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post about the author's PhD dissertation in functional analysis, which he no longer understands. Commenters discuss it as rusty skills after leaving research, not as writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
It seems to me that most commenters are ignoring the fact that the author is a guy that basically left high level mathematics after completing his phd. So basically he went doing other stuff not functional-analysis-related and his functional-analysis got rusty. It seems quite reasonable to me. Call it old code syndrome, call it "my math got rusty", it seems quite normal to me. Also: according to http://fjmubeen.com/…
Comment linking /about/
on “I no longer understand my PhD dissertation”Submitted Child Genius, Adult Stupidity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt would have been cool if the original was linked here http://fjmubeen.com/2016/02/14/202/ and not the medium repost. But still interesting.
Comment linking /2016/02/14/202/
on “I no longer understand my PhD dissertation”Submitted Personalised Learning: Is Edtech Up to It? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion