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Philippe Fournier-Viger
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Philippe Fournier-Viger writes The Data Blog, a personal blog at data-mining.philippe-fournier-viger.com about data and ai. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this blog's post on the volume of machine learning papers (about 50k a year on arXiv and ML venues) to support points about how academic success depends on timing and circumstance. The comments don't assess the writing.
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.
What Hacker News says?
I don't think that people are ranked by talent. This is also true for academia. You don't have to be more talented than the next guy to show better results according to some metric. Right place + right time + avoid confrontations = a huge boost for your success. See http://data-mining.philippe-fournier-viger.com/too-many-mach... Roughly speaking, about 50k papers are published every year in arxiv/ML by perhaps 20k d…
Comment linking /too-many-machine-learning-papers/
on “The revolution of machine learning has been exaggerated”Submitted The Semantic Web and Why It Failed (2018) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionsee here http://data-mining.philippe-fournier-viger.com/too-many-mach...
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on “The revolution of machine learning has been exaggerated”Submitted An Introduction to Frequent Subgraph Mining as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI disagree. Not equally irrelevant. Your employer is connected to your profession, your hobbies/kids are not. I attend a ton of AI/ML conferences (which count as professional conferences) all over the world. On almost all badges and tags, under your name you have your affiliation (company or university). You don't have number of kids or your random hobby on your badge for a reason. See here for a list of badges (not…
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on “Effective Immediately: A central hub for people who've been recently laid off”Submitted Some Shortcomings of CSRankings as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some Shortcomings of CSRankings as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some Shortcomings of CSRankings as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some Shortcomings of CSRankings as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some Shortcomings of CSRankings as a story · 1 points
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