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The Exclusive Or
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The Exclusive Or is a personal blog at theexclusive.org about career, science and ai. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-20, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Linked as a source for mental temperature conversion, a 2012 post on converting Fahrenheit and Celsius in one's head. One commenter cites it while discussing lookup tables versus mental arithmetic.
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How to be creative, productive, and happy as a researcher. Advice and reflections from a working scientist in machine learning.
What Hacker News says?
Numerical implementations of functions often use look-up tables, and there's sometimes a trade-off between number of operations and memory access. (Large look-up tables aren't cache-friendly.) This blog-post is from someone who prefers to do less mental arithmetic, but remember a few numbers: http://www.theexclusive.org/2012/08/converting-fahrenheit-in...
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