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Rahul Agarwal
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Rahul Agarwal writes MLWhiz: Recs|ML|GenAI, a personal blog at mlwhiz.com about data, ai and career. Since 2016, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 84 times, most often “Don't Trust Everything That Goes on the Kaggle Discussion Forums”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a explainer on MCMC (Markov chain Monte Carlo) algorithms, with a worked example involving the Beta distribution. The one commenter points to it for anyone unsure what MCMC is.
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Most-linked posts?
- Don't Trust Everything That Goes on the Kaggle Discussion Forums3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-02-19
- Understanding Big Data the Programmer Way3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-07-07
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Feature Extraction3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-05-19
- Easy Introduction to GANs2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-06-17
- Transfer Learning for Text Explained – Too Simple2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-03-30
- Some Great Additions for Your Jupyter Notebooks2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-06-28
- Creating Baseline is important for your NLP models. Here are some ways2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-02-09
- NLP Learning Series: Attention, CNN and what not for text classification2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-03-09
- Learn NLP using this series I wrote in 4 months2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-21
What Hacker News says?
I believe they are using mcmcs at the core. markov chain multi carlos. this might be useful if you are wondering what it is http://mlwhiz.com/blog/2015/08/19/MCMC_Algorithms_Beta_Distr...
Comment linking /blog/2015/08/19/MCMC_Algorithms_Beta_Distribution/
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