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Sebastian Nowozin

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Sebastian Nowozin's personal blog at nowozin.net covers ai and science. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The Julia Language for Scientific Computing”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2015–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2015

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Sebastian Nowozin's personal blog for technical writing on machine learning and programming languages. One commenter points to a short post on the Julia language as a good read.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Julia Language for Scientific Computing
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. My personal site is https://jonathanstreet.com/ It's in need of some help so I've been looking around for inspiration. I'll be taking a look at everything posted. Some I've found previously I like: http://blog.echen.me/ https://www.liyaoxiang.com/ http://www.randalolson.com/ https://jvns.ca/ http://www.nowozin.net/sebastian/ http://www.emilio.ferrara.name/ http://danielnee.com/ http://daynebatten.com/ https://thomas…

    Comment linking /sebastian/

    on “Building a Kickass Portfolio”
  2. Submitted Where will the next major advance towards general purpose AI come from? as a story · 160 points

    HN discussion
  3. A similar trick is used for a different reason in statistical and probabilistic calculations -- for numerical stability rather than performance. Suppose you have n probabilities p_1, ..., p_n. Each p_i is a real number in the interval [0, 1] . Often you want to multiply probabilities to compute prod_i p_i . Probabilities p_i can be tiny floating point values (very close to zero) and if n, the number of factors, is l…

    Comment linking /sebastian/blog/streaming-log-sum-exp-computation.html

    on “Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's sound chip from die photos”
  4. Submitted The Fair Price to Pay a Spy: An Introduction to the Value of Information as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. chappi42 · 2015-11-15Recommends
    Here is a good short blog post: http://www.nowozin.net/sebastian/blog/the-julia-language-for...

    Comment linking /sebastian/blog/the-julia-language-for-scientific-computing.html

    on “Julia Computing Granted $600k by Moore Foundation”
  6. Submitted Bayesian P-Values as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted The Julia Language for Scientific Computing as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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