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Paul van der Laken
Personal blog · paulvanderlaken.comdataai
Paul van der Laken's personal blog at paulvanderlaken.com covers data and ai. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Readers link these posts for Tinder match-rate data and for a counter-intuitive use of Bayes' theorem about Scientific American's readership. One commenter called the Bayes example 'pretty awesome'.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Disentangling Data Science
What Hacker News says?
For a match. According to this about 15% of men on tinder have 0.1% or lower match rate, and an average man have 1%: https://paulvanderlaken.com/2019/07/31/two-tinder-experiment...
Comment linking /2019/07/31/two-tinder-experiments-an-unequal-economy/
on “Peak non-creepy dating pool”Submitted Building a Realistic Reddit AI That Gets Upvoted as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI see a ton of people making what I'd consider a pretty false assumption that the probability of any scientific american reader is pro trump is zero. The link below is a pretty awesome, counter intuitive use case of Bayes Therom that I saw which made me question statements like this. What the actual makeup of Scientific American's reader base is is probably lower than 50% but it isn't 0% either. That's a lot of wrig…
Comment linking /2020/01/21/bayes-theorem-probability-intuitive-3blue1brown/
on “First time in 175 years, Scientific American endorses a presidential candidate”Submitted Kaggle Data Science Survey 2017: Worldwide Preferences for Python & R as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beating Battleships with Algorithms and AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussion