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Sachin Joglekar

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Sachin Joglekar's personal blog at codesachin.wordpress.com covers ai and data. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Understanding the new Google Translate”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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8mentions?
7HN people?
2015–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

One HN commenter cites this blog as a source on how Google's neural machine translation (GNMT) handles language pairs it was not directly trained on, such as Japanese to Korean.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Programming | Python | ML

Most-linked posts?

  1. Understanding the new Google Translate
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. > Do you have a source that that is actually what is happening behind the scenes? Indirectly yes, I do: https://codesachin.wordpress.com/2017/01/18/understanding-th... > What this basically means is: If during training you provide it examples of English->Japanese & English->Korean translations, GNMT automatically does Japanese->Korean reasonably well! In fact, this is the biggest achievement of GNMT as a project. It…

    Comment linking /2017/01/18/understanding-the-new-google-translate/

    on “Does Machine Translation Affect International Trade?”
  2. Submitted Self-Organizing Maps with Google’s TensorFlow as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Non-Mathematical Feature Engineering Techniques for Data Science as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted K-Means Clustering with TensorFlow as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted How Neural Networks Generate Visual Art from Inspiration as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Understanding the new Google Translate as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted A (small) introduction to Boosting as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted On the Bias Variance tradeoff in machine learning as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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