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Lei Mao
Personal blog · leimao.github.io/blogaimathprogramming
Lei Mao's personal blog at leimao.github.io covers ai, math and programming. Since 2019, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 549 times, most often “Reasons Not to Study Life Science”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Lei Mao's blog for technical fixes and write-ups, such as a post on the Ubuntu dock disappearing after sleep and a simple proof for the container-with-most-water problem.
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.
Who am IMy name is Lei Mao, and I am a Systems Software Engineer at Meta. My research and engineering interests lie in the intersections of artificial intelligence and accelerated computing. Bef
Most-linked posts?
- Reasons Not to Study Life Science3 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-01-03
- Particle Filter2 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2019-07-08
- Quantization for Neural Networks2 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-10-27
- Complex Number Representations2 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-04-22
- CMake: Public vs Private vs Interface2 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-08-09
- Git Submodule Tutorial2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-07-31
- Transformer Explained in One Single Page2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-23
- Matrix Exponential2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-10
- Noise Contrastive Estimate and It Is Being Misunderstood by the Public2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-28
What Hacker News says?
I switched to Ubuntu on my main machine a few years ago. This is my second attempt. There are still some annoyances I run into, the biggest being that the dock regularly disappears after sleep. How would I ever set my parents up on something where even the most basic features require fixes like this https://leimao.github.io/blog/Ubuntu-Dock-Disappear/ ?
Comment linking /blog/Ubuntu-Dock-Disappear/
on “I switched to Linux after using Windows for 10 years”Submitted Tmux Tutorial as a story · 459 points
HN discussionThat dude’s bio is... brutal. “I was a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Biochemistry at Duke University, working on DNA repair mechanisms. There, after spending almost four years, I systematically proved that most of the projects, theories and guidance from the advisor, which I was forced to do and obey, were wrong. To me, a sound Ph.D. degree or research position job title does not tell anything about the perso…
Comment linking /cv/
on “Simple Proof to the Container with Most Water Problem”Submitted Introduction to Bayesian Filter as a story · 167 points
HN discussionSubmitted /.bashrc VS –/.profile VS –/.bash_profile as a story · 140 points
HN discussionSubmitted Particle Filter as a story · 78 points
HN discussionSubmitted BLEU Score: Bilingual Evaluation Understudy as a story · 62 points
HN discussionSubmitted PyTorch Distributed Training as a story · 60 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simple Proof to the Container with Most Water Problem as a story · 56 points
HN discussionSubmitted RSA Algorithm as a story · 55 points
HN discussionSubmitted Group Lasso Regularization as a story · 51 points
HN discussionSubmitted Parallel Gzip – Pigz as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSubmitted Format Python Code Using YAPF as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSubmitted Principal Component Analysis as a story · 44 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simon's Algorithm as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kronecker Product in Circuits as a story · 35 points
HN discussionSubmitted VS Code Development Using Docker Containers on Remote Host as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted Principle of Maximum Entropy as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted Word2Vec Models Revisited as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted ROG AI Overclocking on Linux as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understand Proportional Symbol in Probability and Statistics as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Backup Your Entire GitHub and This Is How to Do It as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Principal Component Analysis as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Siamese Network on MNIST Dataset as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Byte Pair Encoding as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reasons Not to Study Life Science as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Use Noexcept for Exception Handling in C++ Programs as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nvidia Tensor Core Programming as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Transformer Explained in One Single Page as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle Proof as a story · 7 points
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