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Ryan Marcus
Personal blog · rmarcus.info/blog · on HN as RMarcusdatascienceprogramming
Ryan Marcus is a personal blog at rmarcus.info about data, science and programming. Since 2013, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Most Influential Database Papers”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Most Influential Database Papers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-01
What Hacker News says?
Very cool! I wrote something similar, but it only renders lines. https://rmarcus.info/blog/2017/10/23/humanlines.html
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on “Show HN: RoughJS – Create hand-drawn graphics using JavaScript”Submitted Ten years of improvements in PostgreSQL's optimizer as a story · 299 points
HN discussionhttps://rmarcus.info I mostly post interactive or semi-narrative explanations of technical topics I find interesting. 1-3 posts per year.
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on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted The often-overlooked random forest kernel as a story · 201 points
HN discussionI wrote a C version of a connect 4 AI and used emscripten to build a JavaScript / AngularJS version. You can check it out for comparison: http://rmarcus.info/blog/2014/12/23/connect4.html Edit -- Github is here: https://github.com/RyanMarcus/connect4 Looks like my AI beats your AI. ;)
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on “Show HN: C4 – Connect Four, with AI”Submitted Overflow in consistent hashing (2018) as a story · 81 points
HN discussionYou can also interpret each value in Perlin noise as a vector in a flow field to make some interesting and smooth animations reminiscent of older MacOS desktop wallpapers: https://rmarcus.info/blog/2018/03/04/perlin-noise.html
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on “Perlin's Noise Algorithm”Submitted Vulcan: A JavaScript Automated Proof System as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted No, really, what's a monad? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fallthrough Sort (2013) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ten years of improvements in PostgreSQL's optimizer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2024's hottest topics in databases (a bibliometric approach) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Objective C vs C Speed (2012) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quickly sorting small sets using switch fallthrough as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Most Influential Database Papers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fallthrough Sort (2013) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Most Influential Database Papers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Computer-generated lines with a human feel as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted TopNTree — A merge-sort inspired data structure as a story · 1 points
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