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Nina B. Zumel
Personal blog · ninazumel.com/blogmathdatawriting
Nina B. Zumel's personal blog at ninazumel.com covers math, data and writing. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Bachet's Four Weights Problem”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
An HN commenter links this post on Bachet's Four Weights Problem as a puzzle o1-preview solved quickly, in a thread about matrix factorization for the 100 Bushels problem. The comment does not judge the writing.
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.
Data Scientist, San Francisco
Most-linked posts?
- Bachet's Four Weights Problem2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-30
What Hacker News says?
An article I would like to promote on writing: http://ninazumel.com/2012/10/11/i-write-therefore-i-think/
Comment linking /2012/10/11/i-write-therefore-i-think/
on “Writing is hard, so do it”Submitted What is Verification by Multiplicity? as a story · 19 points
HN discussionInterestingly, o1-preview gets all 7 solutions in 18 seconds. It also makes short work of Bachet’s Four Weights Problem as recounted at https://ninazumel.com/blog/2024-09-29-four-weights/ . Pretty smart parrot.
Comment linking /blog/2024-09-29-four-weights/
on “Solving 100 Bushels Using Matrix Factorization”Submitted More Stupid LLM Tricks as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mathematics versus Computer Science as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Write, Therefore I Think as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Women in Data Science – Positive Imagery for the Win as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bachet's Four Weights Problem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The ur-money glitch fraud as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Algorithmic Art as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Design, Problem Solving, and Good Taste as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clarity, Not Magic as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Popularity and Social Networks: Life is still like high school as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Balance as a story · 1 points
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