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Personal blog · parand.com · on HN as parandaiprogrammingcareer

Parand is a personal blog at parand.com about ai, programming and career. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “A Completely Non-Technical Explanation of Deep Learning”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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12mentions?
5HN people?
2008–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2023

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

Why HN links it

The only comment is a reply with bare links, including a parand.com non-technical explanation and a Stack Exchange answer, all about foundational AI papers and concepts. The comments say nothing about the writing itself.

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.

The author on HN?

parand · 1 karma · member since 2007

Machine learning, data, startups. https://www.parand.com/ , @parand on twitter, linkedin, etc.

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A Completely Non-Technical Explanation of Deep Learning
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. The Illustrated Transfomer ( https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/ ) and Visualizing attention ( https://towardsdatascience.com/deconstructing-bert-part-2-vi... ), are both really good resources. For a more ELI5 approach this non-technical explainer ( https://www.parand.com/a-non-technical-explanation-of-chatgp... ) covers it at a high level.

    Comment linking /a-non-technical-explanation-of-chatgpt-deep-learning.html

    on “Ask HN: Can someone ELI5 Transformers and the “Attention is all we need” paper”
  2. Submitted A Completely Non-Technical Explanation of Deep Learning as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. You are welcome Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35368176 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35757802 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35767789 https://www.parand.com/a-completely-non-technical-explanatio... https://ai.stackexchange.com/a/39121

    Comment linking /a-completely-non-technical-explanation-of-ai.html

    on “Ask HN: Foundational Papers in AI”
  4. Submitted Patterns: A Second-Order Tool at Best as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. https://www.parand.com/ Mostly tech and machine learning along with random nonsense.

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”
  6. Submitted The AI Productivity Lie as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted The Bear Case for Frontier AI Labs as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Don't Be a Tourist in Your Own Codebase as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Non-Technical Explanation of ChatGPT and Attention as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted A Non-Technical Explanation of ChatGPT as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Why I Love Venture Capital(ists) Too as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Response to What Sun Should Do as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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