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Jonathan Yedidia

Personal blog · nerdwisdom.com · on HN as jsyedidiaprogrammingscience

Jonathan Yedidia writes Nerd Wisdom, a personal blog at nerdwisdom.com about programming and science. Since 2007, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Programming Erlang”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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7mentions?
4HN people?
2007–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2007

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

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Nerd Wisdom's posts on programming and mathematics, including a 2007 post on Erlang that discusses shared memory in concurrency, and a tag page on symbolic mathematics.

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.

Algorithms, Physics, AI, Games, Biology, Software, etc., with Reviews and Explanations

The author on HN?

jsyedidia · 659 karma · member since 2007

Jonathan Yedidia. I am Senior Director of AI Research at Analog Devices. From 2011-2015, I was a senior research scientist at Disney Research, working on AI and machine learning. From 1998-2011, I was in the Algorithms group at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), where my last job title was distinguished research scientist. The focus of my work was probabilistic inference algorithms, and their applications in communications, signal processing, and AI. I worked at Viaweb (which is relevant…

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Programming Erlang
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-09-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. agumonkey · 2017-01-06
    Never occured to me to check him online https://nerdwisdom.com/tag/sicm/ Thanks

    Comment linking /tag/sicm/

    on “Symbolic mathematics on Linux”
  2. henning · 2007-09-21

    Submitted The Elements of Computing Systems: from logic gates up through OSs and VMs as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  3. aaronblohowiak · 2008-07-08Recommends
    files and sockets are easy to attempt reconnection if something blows up. is it as easy with pipes and shared memory? This article contains some interesting viewpoints about shared memory: http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/08/23/programming-erlang/

    Comment linking /2007/08/23/programming-erlang/

    on “Concurrency ≠ Threads”
  4. jsyedidia · 2007-09-21

    Submitted Programming Erlang as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. jsyedidia · 2007-10-12

    Submitted On Blogs and Books as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. jsyedidia · 2007-09-24

    Submitted Jeff Hawkins' "On Intelligence" and Numenta startup as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. jsyedidia · 2007-10-17

    Submitted The MIT Scheme scmutils library, and how to run it on Mac OS X as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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