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Patrick Mineault
Personal blog · xcorr.netaiscience
Patrick Mineault writes xcorr: AI & neuro, a personal blog at xcorr.net about ai and science. Since 2013, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Dynamic scientific visualizations in the browser for Python users”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked from a Spyder thread, where the only comment discusses Python scientific distributions. The comment says nothing about the blog's writing, so the posts' subjects are not clear from the comments.
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.
by Patrick Mineault
Most-linked posts?
- Dynamic scientific visualizations in the browser for Python users2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-10
What Hacker News says?
Please use Continuum's Anaconda (multiplatform), Python(x,y) or WinPython (Windows only) if you want to have a full scientific distribution that also comes with Spdyer. I you're on Mac, you can also download our dmg [1], which has the most important scientific libs preinstalled. At the moment we don't provide a way to install packages with Spyder but I'm thinking to build one on top of conda (Anaconda's package mana…
Comment linking /2013/04/17/evaluating-ides-for-scientific-python/
on “Spyder – Scientific Python Development Environment”Submitted Unsupervised Brain Models as a story · 77 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dynamic scientific visualizations in the browser for Python users as a story · 51 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dimensionality reduction in neural data analysis as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does GPT-4 have common sense? Consequences for AI (mis)alignment as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My stack for research ML projects as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Denoising Diffusion Models for Neuroscience as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted NeuroAI in Review 2022 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Basic-Science Startups as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How large language models will change science as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dynamic scientific visualizations in the browser for Python users as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 5 easy pieces: How Deepmind mastered Go as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Category representation in the brain as a story · 1 points
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