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Matthijs Hollemans

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Matthijs Hollemans's personal blog at matthijshollemans.com covers programming and ai. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Convolutional neural networks on the iPhone with VGGNet”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2014–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Hollemans' 2015 post on mixins and traits, which argues for preferring traits over mixins, as a parallel to the composition-over-inheritance advice.

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.

Matthijs Hollemans is an independent app developer and designer, and author and co-author of several iOS development books.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Convolutional neural networks on the iPhone with VGGNet
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-08-31

What Hacker News says?

  1. Mixins have their place, but perhaps we are at the point where we need general advice (like the class "Prefer composition over inheritance") for mixins ("Prefer traits over mixins"), especially as there's a good analog between the two. Matthijs Hollemans wrote an article which argues for that as well: http://matthijshollemans.com/2015/07/22/mixins-and-traits-in...

    Comment linking /2015/07/22/mixins-and-traits-in-swift-2/

    on “React: Mixins Considered Harmful”
  2. Submitted Visual Xcode as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Convolutional neural networks on the iPhone with VGGNet as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted The “hello world” of neural networks as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Convolutional neural networks on the iPhone with VGGNet as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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