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Roelof Pieters

Personal blog · graphific.github.io/postsaiprogramming

Roelof Pieters writes Machine Ponderings, a personal blog at graphific.github.io about ai and programming. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Building a Deep Learning (Dream) Machine”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
5HN people?
2016–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its guides to building a deep learning machine, including a multi-part series on a deep learning dream machine. Comments mostly point to the posts as references.

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.

personal blog of Roelof Pieters with a focus on machine learning research.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Building a Deep Learning (Dream) Machine
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-09-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. I think there should be a disclaimer here that while, yes, this will work , it will quickly become suboptimal (perhaps even dysfunctional) for a lot of work as you scale your hobby into something resembling more professional work. I personally would not start with a thousand dollar machine if you have any intention of doing serious computation in the future. While you can trade out parts pretty easy on a custom buil…

    Comment linking /posts/building-a-deep-learning-dream-machine/

    on “Build a fast deep learning machine for under $1K”
  2. Submitted Building a Deep Learning (Dream) Machine as a story · 95 points

    HN discussion
  3. Part 2: https://graphific.github.io/posts/running-a-deep-learning-dr...

    Comment linking /posts/running-a-deep-learning-dream-machine/

    on “Building a Deep Learning (Dream) Machine”
  4. Submitted Running a Deep Learning (Dream) Machine, Part II as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  5. http://graphific.github.io/posts/building-a-deep-learning-dr... http://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/06/build-deep-learning-box.htm...

    Comment linking /posts/building-a-deep-learning-dream-machine/

    on “Ask HN: Best setup for small GPU farm”
  6. Submitted Building a Deep Learning (Dream) Machine – Machine Ponderings as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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