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Nick Yoder
Personal blog · nickyoder.comdataeconomicsai
Nick Yoder's personal blog at nickyoder.com covers data, economics and ai. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a short history post about Pepsi and its supposed 6th largest military force, which one commenter cites as a true story. The other comment is on a Kelly criterion video and does not mention the blog.
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.
Finance, Machine Learning and Genomics projects; Thoughts, stories and ideas
What Hacker News says?
Haha, reminds me of when Pepsi had the 6th largest military force in the world. True story, see below. https://nickyoder.com/5-minute-history-pepsi/
Comment linking /5-minute-history-pepsi/
on “The time Pepsi got sued for a $33M fighter jet”Submitted Language models pack billions of concepts into 12k dimensions as a story · 368 points
HN discussionIf you don't make any assumptions about the underlying distribution you're associating with the risk, it can be anything, so I'm not surprised you haven't found an explanation. For example, the risk could be dependent on previously values, dependent on unobservable data, completely independent, etc. etc. If you make some basic assumptions about independence, along with some others that I may not understand so well,…
Comment linking /kelly-criterion/
on “The "Just One More" Paradox – Kelly Criterion [video]”Submitted Nick Yoder: How I earned $50k using polling data and some Python code as a story · 2 points
HN discussion