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One Man's Trash is Another Man's Blog

Personal blog · blueraja.com/blogprogrammingmath

One Man's Trash is Another Man's Blog is a personal blog at blueraja.com about programming and math. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “A Better Spaced Repetition Learning Algorithm: SM2+”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2015–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its explanation of the Anki spaced repetition algorithm, with code, and its changes to it. One commenter asks for a second part on reviewing.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A Better Spaced Repetition Learning Algorithm: SM2+
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-07-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. deepu256 · 2022-12-28Recommends
    Awesome. I just read through the code & Blog Post and the changes make so much sense as well as the code is super easy to read and understand. Would be awesome to read part-2 of this blog post -> http://www.blueraja.com/blog/477/a-better-spaced-repetition-... Plz plz plz pen down your thoughts on reviewing(part-2 of the post) if you get some free time.

    Comment linking /blog/477/a-better-spaced-repetition-learning-algorithm-sm2

    on “Anki SRS Algorithm : Spaced repetition explained with code”
  2. Submitted Branchless Conditionals (2011) as a story · 41 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted A Better Spaced Repetition Learning Algorithm: SM2+ as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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