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Trung H
Personal blog · trungh.comprogrammingdata
Trung H's personal blog at trungh.com covers programming and data. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Trung H's posts for a math puzzle solved mathematically (the two egg problem) and for a related light-bulb puzzle. One commenter also discusses machine learning, but does not mention the blog.
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.
Just some notes on my road
What Hacker News says?
My take on this is somewhat different - my background is pure mathematics in my undergraduate degree, then applied machine learning at Facebook (ads optimization) and GS (algo trading), and currently at graduate school in ML. My take is that 'applying' machine learning is much easier than one would think, but 'understanding' machine learning is _much_ harder than one would think. I imagine most people start with an…
Comment linking /2013/04/a-short-introduction-to-gradient-boosting-machine-in-python/
on “Machine learning is easier than it looks”Submitted Quick concurrent programming in Python as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAs solved mathematically here http://www.trungh.com/2010/12/light-bulbs/
Comment linking /2010/12/light-bulbs/
on “The Two Egg Problem”