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Mikio Braun
Personal blog · blog.mikiobraun.dedataprogrammingai
Mikio Braun writes Marginally Interesting, a personal blog at blog.mikiobraun.de about data, programming and ai. Since 2010, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “How Python became the language of choice for data science”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link his posts on Python's rise over Matlab, Cassandra GC tuning, and a JVM resource list. The posts are cited as sources, and the Cassandra GC tuning post is listed as helpful.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Mikio Braun's Blog
Most-linked posts?
- How Python became the language of choice for data science2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-11-22
- Big Data beyond MapReduce: Google's Big Data papers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-02-22
- Cassandra Garbage Collection Tuning2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-09-17
What Hacker News says?
>trying to oust Matlab for 31 years or so. Apparently Python is having some success there http://blog.mikiobraun.de/2013/11/how-python-became-the-lang...
Comment linking /2013/11/how-python-became-the-language-of-choice-for-data-science.html
on “Julia Computing Granted $600k by Moore Foundation”Submitted How Python became the language of choice for data science as a story · 175 points
HN discussionGoogle is not doing anything differently here from what they did before. They've been releasing papers instead of code since 2003 [1]. I think overall this has been a good thing. Had they open-sourced, we'd all be using their stuff, but there wouldn't have been the many competing open source big data projects. The fact that the rest of the world was forced to reimplement what google did created a beehive of open sou…
Comment linking /2013/02/big-data-beyond-map-reduce-googles-papers.html
on “Spanner: Becoming a SQL System [pdf]”Submitted Apache Spark: The Next Big Data Thing? as a story · 136 points
HN discussionThanks for those; Some other helpful: http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages/browse_thread/t... http://blog.mikiobraun.de/2010/08/cassandra-gc-tuning.html http://blog.dynatrace.com/2011/05/11/how-garbage-collection-... http://codedependents.com/2011/06/10/java-heaps-and-garbage-... http://blog.zenika.com/index.php?post/2011/06/07/Do-you-real... (link at bottom for vid of talk
Comment linking /2010/08/cassandra-gc-tuning.html
on “JVM Language Summit 2011 Videos”Submitted Three Things About Data Science You Won't Find in the Books as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Analysis: The Hard Parts as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Base vs. Data Science as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Big Data beyond MapReduce: Google's Big Data papers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three Things About Data Science You Won't Find in the Books as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted More Google Big Data papers: Megastore and Spanner as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Real-Time Twitter Analysis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Machine Learning: Beyond Prediction Accuracy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agentic Memory – The Follow Up as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cassandra Garbage Collection Tuning as a story · 1 points
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