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Ujjwal Karn

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Ujjwal Karn's personal blog at ujjwalkarn.me covers ai and data. Since 2016, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “An Intuitive Explanation of Convolutional Neural Networks (2016)”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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9HN people?
2016–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for intuitive explanations of machine learning topics, such as convolutional neural networks. The linked post is a starting point for understanding neural network architectures.

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.

Hi there! I am a Software Engineer at Meta Superintelligence Labs, working on developing Large Language and Vision Models. I have more than twelve years of industry and research experience in machine learning and related areas. I occasionally blog about new things I learn and hope to write more in t

Most-linked posts?

  1. An Intuitive Explanation of Convolutional Neural Networks (2016)
    8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2016-08-10

What Hacker News says?

  1. trophygeek · 2016-09-02Recommends
    Actually, read that one 2nd. Start here: https://ujjwalkarn.me/2016/08/11/intuitive-explanation-convn...

    Comment linking /2016/08/11/intuitive-explanation-convnets/

    on “Neural Network Architectures”
  2. jlukecarlson · 2017-09-25

    Submitted An Intuitive Explanation of Convolutional Neural Networks (2016) as a story · 150 points

    HN discussion
  3. billconan · 2016-09-03

    Submitted An Intuitive Explanation of Convolutional Neural Networks as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  4. vyuh · 2019-10-20

    Submitted A Quick Introduction to Neural Networks (2016) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. brianyu8 · 2017-03-20

    Submitted An Intuitive Explanation of Convolutional Neural Networks (2016) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. adamnemecek · 2016-09-02

    Submitted An Intuitive Explanation of Convolutional Neural Networks as a story · 4 points

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  7. blizzardharmony · 2016-08-20

    Submitted An Intuitive Explanation of Convolutional Neural Networks as a story · 3 points

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  8. ansible · 2016-08-10

    Submitted An Intuitive Explanation of Convolutional Neural Networks as a story · 2 points

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  9. julkali · 2019-04-01

    Submitted An Intuitive Explanation of Convolutional Neural Networks (2016) as a story · 1 points

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