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updated sporadically at best is a personal blog at jxyzabc.blogspot.com about science, programming and writing. Since 2013, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “The Genius Fallacy - Jean Yang”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jean Yang's blog, cited for a response on whether CS researchers release code and for a personal post titled 'My PhD abridged'.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Genius Fallacy - Jean Yang4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-09-16
- Why It's Not Academia's Job to Produce Code That Ships3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-05-07
- What My PhD Was Like2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-27
- Myth: “CS Researchers Don't Publish Code or Data”2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-02
What Hacker News says?
Jean Yang @ CMU (together with Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @ Indiana) posted a response to this on her website: http://jxyzabc.blogspot.com/2016/05/myth-cs-researchers-dont... Releasing code is a widespread practice in the programming languages and software engineering communities, and one that is getting stronger (see http://artifact-eval.org ). If you are a CS researcher, please fill out this survey of open source and dat…
Comment linking /2016/05/myth-cs-researchers-dont-publish-code.html
on ““Extremely angry with the state of academic CS research right now””Submitted What My PhD Was Like as a story · 217 points
HN discussion>It's an "or", not "and necessarily". Yeah, but what I am saying is that you put the same people on both sides. Virtually everyone in haskell land is a C fan, it was a recent topic of discussion actually. >Ocaml is more pragmatic than Haskell, in my opinion There's a reason the haskell community is far larger than the ocaml community, and that the tools and libraries for haskell are way ahead of those for ocaml. Fro…
Comment linking /2009/03/haskell-vs-ocaml-or-ravi..
on “GNU APL 1.0”Submitted Myth: “CS Researchers Don't Publish Code or Data” as a story · 26 points
HN discussionIt's an "or", not "and necessarily". People I know that prefer J (or APL) to K, tend to prefer Haskell to OCaml, _and_ / _or_ Ada to C _and_ / _or_ VHDL to Verilog. YMMV. Ocaml is more pragmatic than Haskell, in my opinion: Eagerness is more practical than laziness (if less elegant and less theoretically beautiful), refs more practical than e.g. state monads. I'm not fluent in either, so correct me if I'm wrong, but…
Comment linking /2009/03/haskell-vs-ocaml-or-ravings-of.html
on “GNU APL 1.0”Submitted Let's Talk About How We Talk About Science as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThe summary of that guy's Phd summary http://jxyzabc.blogspot.com/2016/02/my-phd-abridged.html {"1":"for various reasons i also spend a lot of weekends in new york and make more friends with people working on data and journalism","2":"my friend jean-baptiste who reads it asks why my blog is so good but my paper drafts are so bad","3":"at the beginning of this year i start telling people that i wish i had more female…
Comment linking /2016/02/my-phd-abridged.html
on “Show HN: Pass a URL, get summarized content”Submitted What is Computer Science? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Evolution of What I Call Work: A Google Calendar Memoir as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Genius Fallacy - Jean Yang as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Guest Post: The Real Problem Isn't Gender; It's the Modern Media as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five Research Ideas Instagram Could Have Used to Protect Comey's Secret Twitter as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yet Another Blog Post on Industry vs. Academia as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why It's Not Academia's Job to Produce Code That Ships as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why It's Not Academia's Job to Produce Code That Ships as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Genius Fallacy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Professors Can Do About the Collaboration Problem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A counterpoint to de Millo, Lipton, and Perlis [bashing software verification] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Genius Fallacy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Genius Fallacy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five Research Ideas Instagram Could Have Used to Protect Comey's Secret Twitter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why It's Not Academia's Job to Produce Code That Ships as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I Learned from Becoming a “Biologist” as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Week at Hacker School as a story · 1 points
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