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Sam Koblenski

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Sam Koblenski writes Lucid Mesh, a personal blog at sam-koblenski.blogspot.com about programming and web. Since 2013, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 246 times, most often “Everyday DSP for Programmers: Basic Signals”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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246mentions?
7HN people?
2013–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 53 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its Everyday DSP for Programmers series of signal processing articles with JavaScript examples, and one post on how chess skills relate to programming.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Everyday DSP for Programmers: Basic Signals
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-08-21
  2. Tech Book Face Off: Facts and Fallacies of SW Engineering vs. Programming Pearls
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-24
  3. Everyday DSP for Programmers: Edge Detection
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-01
  4. The Best Steve Yegge Posts
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-05
  5. Tech Book Face Off: Gödel, Escher, Bach vs. The Annotated Turing
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-19
  6. What Chess Can Teach Us About Programming
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-12-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. http://sam-koblenski.blogspot.com/2015/08/everyday-dsp-for-p...

    Comment linking /2015/08/everyday-dsp-for-programmers-basic.html

    on “Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?”
  2. Submitted Everyday DSP for Programmers: Signal Envelopes as a story · 93 points

    HN discussion
  3. Everyday DSP for Programmers(JavaScript) http://sam-koblenski.blogspot.com/2015/08/everyday-dsp-for-p...

    Comment linking /2015/08/everyday-dsp-for-programmers-basic.html

    on “The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing (1999)”
  4. Submitted Everyday Statistics for Programmers: Nonlinear Regression as a story · 63 points

    HN discussion
  5. Animats · 2015-10-07Recommends
    That is very well done. There's a whole series of those articles; start at [1]. [1] http://sam-koblenski.blogspot.com/2015/08/everyday-dsp-for-p...

    Comment linking /2015/08/everyday-dsp-for-programmers-basic.html

    on “Everyday DSP for Programmers: Signal Envelopes”
  6. Submitted A Year and a Half With a Nissan Leaf (Part 2): The Summer Drive as a story · 63 points

    HN discussion
  7. from the first google result for "chess programming skills", this article ( http://sam-koblenski.blogspot.com/2013/12/what-can-chess-tea... ) gives a few thoughts on why chess skills can translate into good programming skills.

    Comment linking /2013/12/what-can-chess-teach-us-about.html

    on “Ask HN: Do you play Chess?”
  8. Submitted A Year and a Half With a Nissan Leaf (Part 1): The Acquisition as a story · 53 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Tech Book Face Off: The Pragmatic Programmer Vs. Code Complete as a story · 47 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Ender's Game is an Understated Story of Uncertainty as a story · 40 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Reflections on Programming as a story · 32 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted College Is Much More Than a Means to a Higher Salary as a story · 32 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Face It: You Can't Predict the Future as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Don't Comment Your Code - Write Better Code as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted The Best Steve Yegge Posts as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted An EV Future is Inevitable as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Everyday DSP for Programmers: FIR Filters as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Everyday DSP for Programmers: Edge Detection as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Tech Book Face Off: How to Design Programs vs. SICP as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Tech Book Face Off: The Edward Tufte Trilogy as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Tech Book Face Off: Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks vs. CUDA by Example as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Memorization vs. Observation as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted All in Good Fun: Learning with Lego Video Games as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Tech Book Face Off: Physics of the Impossible vs. The Physics of Star Trek as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Everyday DSP for Programmers: Sampling Theory as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Playing with Gravity to Learn CUDA: A Fundamental Force as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Tech Books I Will Read Again as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Tech Book Face Off: Python for Data Analysis vs. Python Data Science Handbook as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Exploring Simple Game Algorithms with Color Walk: DFS as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Everyday DSP for Programmers: Transforms as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion

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