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Ondřej Čertík
Personal blog · ondrejcertik.com/blogprogrammingscience
Ondřej Čertík's personal blog at ondrejcertik.com covers programming and science. Since 2020, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Resurrecting Fortran”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ondřej Čertík's blog for its Fortran writing, including 'Resurrecting Fortran' on the Fortran standard library and community and a GPT-2 implementation in Fortran with an experience report.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Most-linked posts?
- Resurrecting Fortran4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-03-13
- FastGPT: Faster than PyTorch in 300 lines of Fortran (2023)3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-03-14
What Hacker News says?
> a few intuitions coming from theory (that was not topology). I think these 'intuitions' are an after-the-fact thing, meaning AFTER deep learning comes up with a method, researchers in other fields of science notice the similarities between the deep learning approach and their (possibly decades old) methods. Here's an example where the author discovers that GPT is really the same computational problems he has solve…
Comment linking /blog/2023/03/fastgpt-faster-than-pytorch-in-300-lines-of-fortran/
on “Deep Learning Is Applied Topology”Submitted Resurrecting Fortran as a story · 116 points
HN discussionFortran is hot at the moment :-) See "Resurrecting Fortran" (blog post by Ondřej Čertík https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26445438 https://ondrejcertik.com/blog/2021/03/resurrecting-fortran/ ) about the promising Fortran "standard lib" and the Fortran community in general (see the related website https://fortran-lang.org/ ). The story here is interesting but lacks a bit about this wider context.
Comment linking /blog/2021/03/resurrecting-fortran/
on “Why are most climate models in Fortran?”Submitted Running for International Fortran Committee Chair as a story · 7 points
HN discussionhere are some articles by some of the contributors: Fortran Package Manager's First Birthday (2020-12?): https://github.com/everythingfunctional/fortran-forum-fpm-fi... It was very quickly that many interested in using fpm also expressed some interest in helping with its development. There was one problem. Most people were not familiar with Haskell, making that a significant barrier to their being able to contribute…
Comment linking /blog/2021/03/resurrecting-fortran/
on “Fortran Package Manager”Submitted FastGPT: Faster than PyTorch in 300 lines of Fortran (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRelevant: A GPT-2 implementation in Fortran and an experience report: https://ondrejcertik.com/blog/2023/03/fastgpt-faster-than-py...
Comment linking /blog/2023/03/fastgpt-faster-than-pytorch-in-300-lines-of-fortran/
on “Fortran Outsmarted Our Billion-Dollar AI Chips”Submitted FastGPT: Faster than PyTorch in 300 lines of Fortran as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> > While Fortran has long been the butt of the joke in IT departments the world over, in a curious twist of fate, it has seen a dramatic resurgence over the last few years. While the reasons for this are not exactly obvious ... > It is obvious to me. :) https://x.com/OndrejCertik/status/1722364038212899274?s=20 resurrecting fortran: https://ondrejcertik.com/blog/2021/03/resurrecting-fortran/
Comment linking /blog/2021/03/resurrecting-fortran/
on “Why SciPy builds for Python 3.12 on Windows are a minor miracle”