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Michael Correll
Personal blog · mcorrell.medium.comdataprogramming
Michael Correll's personal blog at mcorrell.medium.com covers data and programming. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Potemkin Data Science (2020)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment discusses notebook-driven data programming and JavaScript, and says that prototyping gains can bring technical debt. It does not judge the linked writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Potemkin Data Science (2020)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-25
What Hacker News says?
This is something I often wonder about. In my own experience the perceived productivity gains in prototyping often come with externalized technical debt that lead to an overall loss of productivity. Notebook-driven development tends to produce models that are too tightly coupled with an underlying data pipeline, as the workflow very much facilitates this. There’s a measured loss of productivity when a model and pipe…
Comment linking /potemkin-data-science-fba2b5ba5cc6
on “JavaScript and the next decade of data programming (2020)”Submitted Potemkin Data Science (2020) as a story · 107 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Perils of Programming as Puzzle as a story · 1 points
HN discussion