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Mining for Meaning is a personal blog at mining4meaning.com about data, ai and culture. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Algorithm That Counts Rap Rhymes and Scouts Mad Lines”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-21, and you can follow it by feed.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2015–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked as the author's own write-up on computational rap lyric generation, including the Raplyzer project and a machine-learning system that mines rap lyrics and writes its own. Comments only link to it.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Eric's Data Science Blog

Most-linked posts?

  1. Algorithm That Counts Rap Rhymes and Scouts Mad Lines
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-02-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. From one of the authors: http://mining4meaning.com/2015/02/13/raplyzer/

    Comment linking /2015/02/13/raplyzer/

    on “DopeLearning: A Computational Approach to Rap Lyrics Generation”
  2. Submitted Algorithm That Counts Rap Rhymes and Scouts Mad Lines as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion
  3. Links to author's site and app https://mining4meaning.com/2016/08/05/droppin-science-on-hat... http://deepbeat.org/

    Comment linking /2016/08/05/droppin-science-on-haters/

    on “Machine-Learning Algorithm Mines Rap Lyrics, Then Writes Its Own”

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