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Samvit Jain

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Samvit Jain's personal blog at samvitjain.com covers ai and career. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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5mentions?
3HN people?
2017–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Samvit Jain's posts on judging past decisions by present values and on evaluating startups when choosing a job. The comments only cite or link them, with no judgement of the writing.

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.

Samvit Jain is a machine learning engineer at Google. Currently working on Evens and figuring out what's next in AI.

What Hacker News says?

  1. I love this take on regret, and it really resonates with how I reason about it. I wrote a short blog post on the idea of judging your past self based on your current values: https://www.samvitjain.com/blog/regret/ . Curious what you think!

    Comment linking /blog/regret/

    on “Life is not short”
  2. Submitted How to Pick Your Next Gig: Evaluating Startups as a story · 158 points

    HN discussion
  3. There is in part 2: http://www.samvitjain.com/blog/evaluating-startups-2/

    Comment linking /blog/evaluating-startups-2/

    on “How to Pick Your Next Gig: Evaluating Startups”
  4. Submitted The trouble with regret minimization as a story · 76 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted A Machine Learning Syllabus as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion

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