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Luke Salamone
Personal blog · lukesalamone.github.ioaiprogramming
Luke Salamone's personal blog at lukesalamone.github.io covers ai and programming. Since 2022, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Alphabet Chess”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Luke Salamone's posts on chess variants (Alphabet Chess), the meaning of 'temperature' in language models, and a Knuth and ChatGPT discussion.
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.
Luke Salamone's blog on machine learning, AI research, and software engineering.
Most-linked posts?
- Alphabet Chess2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-01
- The Most Ramified Chess Position of 20232 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-18
- What Is Temperature in NLP?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-13
What Hacker News says?
By far the easiest if you just want to go from markdown to online blog would be a static site on Github pages. I use Hugo [0] with a custom theme but there are even easier options if you don't even care about style. In particular, I have used Grip [1], which can generate HTML from markdown. [0] https://lukesalamone.github.io [1] https://github.com/joeyespo/grip
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on “Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?”Submitted Vectorized K-Means Clustering as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://lukesalamone.github.io/posts/what-is-temperature/ > Well, no, making a point of highlighting the points of your ignorance when discussing something is good. Especially when you are a notable expert in the broad field being discussed. I disagree. Stating “whatever that means” indicates dismissiveness, not a transparent lack of expertise. Also, you should know what it means if you’re an expert. This quote impl…
Comment linking /posts/what-is-temperature/
on “Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT”Submitted The Most Ramified Chess Position of 2023 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMy blog is https://lukesalamone.github.io Nothing too fancy, just a static hugo site on github pages. I'm most happy with the search that I added, which all happens client-side. The index is only about 129 KB so I'll probably never hit a practical download size limit either. And because it's happening in the browser it's very responsive. If anyone is curious about the details I also wrote about that here: https://lu…
Comment linking /posts/rolling-my-own-blog-search/
on “Ask HN: Share Your Personal Site”Submitted The Most Ramified Chess Position of 2023 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://lukesalamone.github.io I usually write about machine learning & statistics topics as well as chess AI. I'm most proud of the search bar, which is all performed client-side so it's lightning fast.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted A Few Notes on the Transformer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHey, I enjoyed reading your article on Alphabet Chess ( https://lukesalamone.github.io/posts/alphabet-chess/ ). The idea seems quite unique, but I can understand how it could lead to positions where the engine may consider the position to be almost equal, but it could be objectively worse for one of the players. It would be interesting to compare this variant with Fischer Random Chess. According to Wikipedia ( https…
Comment linking /posts/alphabet-chess/
on “Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?”Submitted What Is Temperature in NLP? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIn my experience semantic search is great for finding implicit relationships (bad guy => villain) but sometimes fails in unpredictable ways for more elementary matches (friends => friend). That's why it can be good to combine semantic search with something like BM25, which is what I use in my blog search [1]. N-gram text frequency algorithms like TF-IDF and BM25 are also lightning fast compared to semantic search. […
Comment linking /posts/rolling-my-own-blog-search
on “How to implement Q&A against your docs with GPT3 embeddings and Datasette”Submitted Anthropomorphic Chess Evaluation via Qualitative Analysis [pdf] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning the Haystack as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is a Blunder in Chess? (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A 3D Game of Life as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rolling My Own Blog Search as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Favorite Antimaia Games as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Alphabet Chess as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A new type of chess engine as a story · 1 points
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