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Matthias Vallentin

Personal blog · matthias.vallentin.net/blogsecuritydatamath

Matthias Vallentin's personal blog at matthias.vallentin.net covers security, data and math. Since 2010, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “A Garden Variety of Bloom Filters”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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12mentions?
12HN people?
2010–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for probability and statistics reference material, including cheat sheets, a free statistics cookbook, and posts on Bloom filters and their variants.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A Garden Variety of Bloom Filters
    6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2011-12-01
  2. The Probability and Statistics Cookbook
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-03-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. stdbrouw · 2015-08-31
    Two good probability cheat sheets (not primers, though) are http://matthias.vallentin.net/blog/2010/10/probability-and-s... https://github.com/wzchen/probability_cheatsheet

    Comment linking /blog/2010/10/probability-and-statistics-cheat-sheet/

    on “Math for Machine Learning (2009) [pdf]”
  2. tel · 2012-09-16

    Submitted The Probability and Statistics Cookbook as a story · 182 points

    HN discussion
  3. DanielRibeiro · 2012-09-27Recommends
    If you like blooms filters, you may like many variations of it, and some of its applications: A Garden Variety of Bloom Filters [1] [1] http://matthias.vallentin.net/blog/2011/06/a-garden-variety-...

    Comment linking /blog/2011/06/a-garden-variety-of-bloom-filters/

    on “Why Bloom filters work the way they do”
  4. srsamarthyam · 2012-09-17

    Submitted A Garden Variety of Bloom Filters as a story · 48 points

    HN discussion
  5. mavam · 2017-02-03
    (Disclaimer: CAF co-maintainer here.) It's great to see more actor runtimes on the rise. Also interesting to see the actor model implemented in Go, which follows more of a pi calculus design with its channels. With an actor design, the software architecture shifts towards the endpoints of the communication. CAF targets the performance-sensitive C++ community, so sending a message in the same process only costs a sin…

    Comment linking /slides/caf-rise.pdf

    on “Proto Actor – Fast distributed actors for Golang and C#”
  6. fforflo · 2016-02-27

    Submitted A Garden Variety of Bloom Filters (2013) as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  7. kqr2 · 2012-09-24
    The direct blog-free link is: http://matthias.vallentin.net/probability-and-statistics-coo... which was discussed in depth previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4527914

    Comment linking /probability-and-statistics-cookbook/

    on “Free Open Source Statistics Cookbook”
  8. jcsalterego · 2011-12-01

    Submitted A Garden Variety of Bloom Filters as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  9. gtani · 2012-03-12

    Submitted Probability and Statistics Cookbook as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  10. signa11 · 2014-02-25

    Submitted A Garden Variety of Bloom Filters as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. jashmenn · 2012-04-01

    Submitted A Garden Variety of Bloom Filters as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. tzm · 2010-12-13

    Submitted Taming the Sheep: Detecting Sidejacking in Bro as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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