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Luis von Ahn
Personal blog · vonahn.blogspot.comsciencecareer
Luis von Ahn writes Luis von Blog, a personal blog at vonahn.blogspot.com about science and career. Since 2009, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Research vs. Teaching”. The last post was in 2010, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Luis von Ahn's blog, the founder of reCAPTCHA, for posts such as his argument for why startups stay in Pittsburgh to draw on CMU talent. One commenter also linked a playful post on the hottest people in CS.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Research vs. Teaching2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-02-17
- Should you go to Grad School?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-03-23
What Hacker News says?
I find it funny that Luis also posted: http://vonahn.blogspot.com/2009/07/hottest-people-in-cs.html
Comment linking /2009/07/hottest-people-in-cs.html
on “Google acquires reCAPTCHA”Submitted Luis von Ahn: Outsourcing My Research Group as a story · 18 points
HN discussion> And lets get honest here - Pittsburgh is great but if you're finally making it to the big time, why would you want to stay in a declining rustbelt city? Luis (the reCAPTCHA founder) wrote a blog post about this recently. Basically to summarize, staying in Pittsburgh helped picking up CMU talent, and Pittsburgh doesn't suffer from a lot of distractions that come with the Valley. http://vonahn.blogspot.com/2010/06/s…
Comment linking /2010/06/startups-and-cmu.html
on “Pittsburgh gives birth to tech firms, but can't keep them”Submitted Tis the season for Grad School Advice as a story · 16 points
HN discussionInteresting article. At Chicago State, the article certainly spins it such that it appears they deserve to be singled out. However, a University's dropout rate is not a determining factor of its quality. Some schools are just purely harder than others. In fact, I would argue that schools should be failing students if they are not qualified to perform the jobs which the degrees say they do. If schools end up passing…
Comment linking /2009/03/failing-students.html
on “College Dropout Factories”Submitted Luis von Ahn asks: can we come up with Google-proof age test? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Research vs. Teaching as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hilarious bargaining (Luis von Ahn) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should you go to Grad School? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Luis Von Ahn's Blog (Wait for his comments on reCaptcha) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You must translate this Wikipedia article to French before you can go on a date with them as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Luis von Ahn's blog as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hollywood-Style Lectures as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Short talk about reCAPTCHAs by Luis von Ahn as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Amazing Computer Science Diet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should You Go to Grad School? (Luis von Ahn) as a story · 1 points
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