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Mark Saroufim
Personal blog · marksaroufim.substack.comaiprogrammingcareer
Mark Saroufim writes Breaking Stagnation, a personal blog at marksaroufim.substack.com about ai, programming and career. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The comments do not judge the writing. The one comment discusses open-source ML companies like Hugging Face, Explosion and fast.ai and the communities they built.
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.
Build cool stuff again.
Most-linked posts?
- Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation3 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-11-08
- The Rise of HuggingFace2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-04-26
- Working Class Deep Learner2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-16
What Hacker News says?
In the ML industry, there are two type of companies. 1/ Open source companies like huggingface ( https://github.com/huggingface ), explosion ( https://github.com/explosion ), Fast.ai that democratized access to ML and provided a set of tools & language models for engineers. These companies didn't only manage to build a company and open source projects, they built a welcoming community and it's impressive to see all…
Comment linking /p/machine-learning-the-great-stagnation
on “Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI”Submitted Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation as a story · 484 points
HN discussionSubmitted Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working Class Deep Learner as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wild West of MLOps as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wild West of MLOps as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dump the MBA – Gaming as Management Training as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rise of HuggingFace as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rise of HuggingFace as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Myth of Objective Tech Screens as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You're Doing Remote Wrong as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You're Doing Remote Wrong as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working Class Deep Learner as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rise of HuggingFace as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rise of HuggingFace as a story · 1 points
HN discussion