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Reinforcement Learning
Personal blog · econoben.github.ioeconomicshistoryprogramming
Reinforcement Learning is a personal blog at econoben.github.io about economics, history and programming. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “On Dominance Terminology: Tracing the History of Master-Slave”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A 2020 post on the terminology of master and slave in software, linked in a Git default-branch discussion. One commenter calls it a good write-up.
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.
A blog about the intersection of computer science, economics, and history.
Most-linked posts?
- On Dominance Terminology: Tracing the History of Master-Slave3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-10-21
What Hacker News says?
This should be the top comment to foster a conversation around sources we can dig up. The digital roots to word usages should be preserved as understanding is the first step to changing. I can’t casually read the bitkeeper “HOWTO” now without cringing at the word choice - it’s not that it didn’t age well, it’s that I used to lack empathy for its usage. I think treating this human relationship as a light hearted meta…
Comment linking /2020/10/20/master-slave-terminology.html
on “Update to Git changes the default of init.defaultBranch to main”Submitted On Dominance Terminology: Tracing the History of Master-Slave as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI found this to be a good write up: https://econoben.github.io/2020/10/20/master-slave-terminolo...
Comment linking /2020/10/20/master-slave-terminology.html
on “Update to Git changes the default of init.defaultBranch to main”Submitted The Origin of Time-Sharing Computers, Round-Robin Algorithms, & Cloud Computing as a story · 2 points
HN discussion