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Preferred Networks, Inc. is the company blog at tech.preferred.jp, writing about ai and programming. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Exhaustive Union Matching in Python”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2020–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2023

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Why HN links it

The Preferred Networks tech blog is linked for a post on exhaustive union matching in Python. The other comments on the blog's linked pages concern Optuna and an unrelated Ask HN thread.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Preferred Networks' tech blog, where our engineers, researchers, and interns share the latest research results and technologies.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Exhaustive Union Matching in Python
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-01-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. I have extensively tested Optuna and Weights and Biases (WandB) for hyperparameter tuning on multiple task-specific transformer models back in 2020. Optuna lost out by a long mile back then in feature parity and dashboarding. Optuna did not have hyperband optimization which was and still is one of the best search algos for hyperopt. It looks like it is possible to implement hyperband yourself now, but in the loosely…

    Comment linking /en/blog/how-we-implement-hyperband-in-optuna/

    on “Optuna – A Hyperparameter Optimization Framework”
  2. Submitted Best Practices for Working with Configuration in Python Applications as a story · 209 points

    HN discussion
  3. Yes. This was a huge surprise to me too. Everybody loves typescript but basic usage of types in typescript is actually less powerful because it doesn't support this. You have to use it in a specific way though. https://tech.preferred.jp/en/blog/python-exhaustive-union-ma...

    Comment linking /en/blog/python-exhaustive-union-match/

    on “Effect of Perceptual Load on Performance Within IDE in People with ADHD Symptoms”
  4. Submitted Exhaustive Union Matching in Python as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. > No this bug wouldn't have been caught. I'd have to write the test for it. ... Ah OK, so this is where I think that we're talking past each other. When I say "testing", and the reason I focus on making them automated is that when I sit down to write tests, if I'm really up to it I get myself in a mood where I'm thinking of what can go wrong. Doing that is what I'm suggesting might have made the difference. > This i…

    Comment linking /en/blog/python-exhaustive-union-ma

    on “Ask HN: I have 10 yrs of Exp. Failed 4 takehome projects. What am I doing wrong?”
  6. Submitted Technologies Behind Distributed Deep Learning: AllReduce as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. >You literally had a bug in your code that would have been caught with testing, and it did not have to do with the logic but with input sanitization, which has to do with your integration with what the framework provided you. No this bug wouldn't have been caught. I'd have to write the test for it. I did do integration tests. I just did them manually. If I wrote all the manual tests and made them automated this "err…

    Comment linking /en/blog/python-exhaustive-union-match/

    on “Ask HN: I have 10 yrs of Exp. Failed 4 takehome projects. What am I doing wrong?”

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