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Subjective Functions

Personal blog · dswalter.github.io/blogaidata

Subjective Functions is a personal blog at dswalter.github.io about ai and data. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “A Look into Machine Learning's First Cheating Scandal”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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8mentions?
5HN people?
2015–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2015

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

Why HN links it

Linked as background in HN threads on Microsoft Research's image recognition win and a Baidu self-driving car claim. The URL slug suggests the post is about machine learning's first cheat.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A Look into Machine Learning's First Cheating Scandal
    5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2015-12-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. see http://dswalter.github.io/blog/machine-learnings-first-cheat... for some background on this.

    Comment linking /blog/machine-learnings-first-cheating-scandal/

    on “Microsoft Research wins image recognition competition”
  2. Submitted A Look into Machine Learning's First Cheating Scandal as a story · 246 points

    HN discussion
  3. Keep in mind this is Baidu. This baidu: http://dswalter.github.io/blog/machine-learnings-first-cheat...

    Comment linking /blog/machine-learnings-first-cheating-scandal/

    on “Baidu says it's developed China's first fully autonomous self-driving car”
  4. Submitted Overfitting, Regularization, and Hyperparameter Optimization as a story · 72 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted A Presidential Debate in N-grams as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted A Look into Machine Learning's First Cheating Scandal as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted A Look into “Machine Learning's First Cheating Scandal” as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted A Look into “Machine Learning's First Cheating Scandal” as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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