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Kenny Cason

Personal blog · kennycason.com · on HN as KennyCasonprogrammingai

Kenny Cason's personal blog at kennycason.com covers programming and ai. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Genetic Algorithms for Drawing Images (Kotlin)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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11mentions?
3HN people?
2013–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked posts describe genetic algorithm image approximation, where evolved shapes or polygons are drawn to recreate a target image from colours. One commenter cites them as similar implementations in an HN thread.

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.

Exploring Entropy

The author on HN?

KennyCason · 668 karma · member since 2011

Co-Founder/CTO @ Arrived arrivedhomes.com Past: Co-Founder/CTO of DataRank YC 13 www.kennycason.com www.github.com/kennycason https://www.instagram.com/kennycason/ https://twitter.com/kenny_cason

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Genetic Algorithms for Drawing Images (Kotlin)
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-06-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. KennyCason · 2018-08-02
    This makes me wish I took more screenshots of my old websites. My personal sites have had some very fun evolutions, including some outrageous styles/themes. May have to checkout the Wayback Machine. I’ve migrated from Wordpress, to rails, to Hakyll, and finally to my own static site generator in Kotlin, Kakyll. :) My most recent change which significantly improved traffic was making it mobile friendly. Im also no in…

    Comment linking /

    on “Building a Kickass Portfolio”
  2. KennyCason · 2017-04-12

    Submitted Ray Casting – Polygon Containment as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. dalke · 2016-11-08
    Some variation of https://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-evolu... ? https://github.com/kiirala/approximate_image and http://kennycason.com/posts/2016-06-01-genetic-algorithm-dra... are similar implementations.

    Comment linking /posts/2016-06-01-genetic-algorithm-draw-images.html

    on “Ask HN: Anyone remember a lib which recreates images from colors?”
  4. KennyCason · 2018-12-21

    Submitted Golden Ratio Derivation as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. KennyCason · 2016-06-02

    Submitted Genetic Algorithms for Drawing Images (Kotlin) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. KennyCason · 2014-06-02

    Submitted Deep Restricted Boltzmann Machine – Java as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. robertelder · 2016-11-24

    Submitted Genetic Algorithm to Draw Images as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. KennyCason · 2016-11-23

    Submitted Cellular Automata Convergence – (Fire, Water, Grass) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. KennyCason · 2017-04-13

    Submitted Ray Casting – Polygon Containment as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. KennyCason · 2014-07-03

    Submitted Show HN: Kumo - Java Word Cloud as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. KennyCason · 2013-11-07

    Submitted Haskell SDL - Boxxle (GameBoy version) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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