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Mathematical Multicore
Personal blog · mathematicalmulticore.wordpress.com · on HN as MTGandPmathprogramming
Mathematical Multicore is a personal blog at mathematicalmulticore.wordpress.com about math and programming. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a discussion of an AI-designed keyboard layout. The one comment points to earlier computer-generated layout work (AdNW, MTGAP, Capewell-Dvorak) and asks what AI method was used.
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.
Math, computers, keyboard layouts, and looking at life from a mathematical perspective.
What Hacker News says?
Y'all need to know the background of past efforts [1], people keep making the same observations over and over again as if they're new. In the area of computer-generated layouts, there's been lots of rich discussion on the AdNW [2] and MTGAP [3] projects. For "improving Dvorak", that was solved back in 2004 with Capewell-Dvorak [4]. To the author: what is supposed to be AI here? I don't see a mention of a ML method o…
Comment linking /category/keyboards/
on “An AI designed keyboard layout (2021)”Submitted The keyboard layout project as a story · 34 points
HN discussionAuthor of The Keyboard Layout Project here. I'm familiar with Workman; it's a reasonably strong attempt, but I think it has a number of problems and fails to perform as well as Colemak or my own layouts. If you compare Workman and MTGAP 3.14 (shown [here]( http://mathematicalmulticore.wordpress.com/the-keyboard-layo... ) using [my keyboard evaluator]( https://github.com/MTGandP/Typing ), MTGAP 3.14 performs better o…
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on “The keyboard layout project”Hi, writer of The Keyboard Layout Project here. I'm well aware of the limitations of scoring a layout based on crude heuristics, and I'm trying to collect some good data. Right now I have some data from a few layouts that I've collected using [Amphetype]( http://code.google.com/p/amphetype/ ), which records speed and accuracy for characters, trigraphs, and words. I'm curious, what program did you use to collect typi…
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on “The keyboard layout project”