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Onionesque Reality
Personal blog · onionesquereality.wordpress.commathdataai
Onionesque Reality is a personal blog at onionesquereality.wordpress.com about math, data and ai. Since 2008, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts cover Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission information with Earth imagery and a 'What would Feynman do' flowchart on decision-making. Comments only link to them as pointers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
We could perhaps modify the theory, thinking of the mechanics of research. Progress is made by an individual in the niches where others have not managed yet. Therefore the advantage in geometry for a blind mathematician may be in a different mental model of spaces. It is not surprising at all that almost all blind mathematicians are geometers. The spatial intuition that sighted people have is based on the image of t…
Comment linking /2011/07/31/blind-geometers/
on “Roger Penrose – Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? [video]”Submitted Blind Mathematicians as a story · 21 points
HN discussion> the simplest summary question I can think to ask is: What do you think Richard Feynman would do in your situation? At the risk of getting downvoted for a silly comment, there's the Feynman Flowchart: http://onionesquereality.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/what-would...
Comment linking /2008/01/20/what-would-feynman-do/
on “Making $1 million from affiliate links on "Ad-Free" blog”Submitted Face Recognition using Eigenfaces and Distance Classifiers: A Tutorial as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThere's more info about Chandrayaan on this blog with a nice picture of earth http://onionesquereality.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/chandrayaa...
Comment linking /2008/11/03/chandrayaan-1s-first-pictures/
on “Chandrayaan 1 captured by Moon”Submitted Voronoi Art (Art based on Voronoi Diagrams) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted N is a Number : A Portrait of Paul Erdős as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Simple Intro to Learning Theory as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where does the Sigmoid in Logistic Regression come from? (Rather, why log-odds?) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Darwinian Evolution is a form of PAC (Machine) Learning as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Statistical Aspects of Data Mining as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intro. Courses on Neural Nets, Visualization, ML, And Astrophysical Chemistry as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why are Support Vectors Machines called so? as a story · 1 points
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