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Vikas Paruchuri
Personal blog · vikparuchuri.com/blogdataprogrammingculture
Vikas Paruchuri's personal blog at vikparuchuri.com covers data, programming and culture. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “I barely graduated college, and that's okay”. The last post was in 2024, 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 point to this blog for machine learning writing. One commenter calls it hours of excellent writing, and another shares its posts on making R charts and infographics.
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.
I’m Vikas, a developer based in Oakland. I'm a lifelong learner currently diving deep into AI. I've started an education company, won ML competitions, and served as a US diplomat.
Most-linked posts?
- I barely graduated college, and that's okay2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-12
What Hacker News says?
Man.. To other readers, follow that link at your own risk. Vikp has a blog[1] which has hours and hours of excellent writing about machine learning. [1] http://vikparuchuri.com/blog/
Comment linking /blog/
on “Machine learning is easier than it looks”Submitted Learning to code kept me sane when I was a diplomat as a story · 100 points
HN discussionToo long of a list to post here, but I did write a blog post about it a while ago. I need to update it, but these are still relevant: http://www.vikparuchuri.com/blog/resources-for-learning-stat... .
Comment linking /blog/resources-for-learning-statistics-and/
on “Learn data science in your browser”Submitted I barely graduated college, and that's okay as a story · 95 points
HN discussionHey, good question. I actually started out building stock prediction algorithms, then realized I had no idea how to do that (~October 2011). I was mainly coding in C# and Ruby, and picking it up from books. I then found Kaggle, which has a lot of great machine learning competitions. They will post something like "predict bond prices accurately", or "score essays automatically", and lots of people get to compete to c…
Comment linking /blog/how-do-simpsons-characters-feel-about-each-other/
on “I quit my job, and I'm excited about a more independent life”Submitted Making music automatically with markov chains and genetic algorithms as a story · 4 points
HN discussionInteresting analysis, David. I actually got strikingly similar results looking at voting matrices and using SVD to turn them into two dimensions: http://vikparuchuri.com/blog/how-divided-is-the-senate/ and http://vikparuchuri.com/blog/the-danger-and-power-of-visuali... . I assume you did something similar. Either way, it's surprisingly easy to get access to this data, and fun to analyze. I have the scraping code on…
Comment linking /blog/the-danger-and-power-of-visualizations/
on “Show HN: Voting Relationships in the US Senate”Submitted I barely graduated college, and that's okay (2015) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere's a couple articles on touch-ups that I've hoarded. (Thanks, Pinboard!) http://www.vikparuchuri.com/blog/making-infographics-using-r... http://rforwork.info/2012/04/12/fun-editing-r-graphs-in-inks...
Comment linking /blog/making-infographics-using-r-and-inkscape/
on “An Introduction on How to Make Beautiful Charts with R and ggplot2”Submitted How Many Data Scientists Are There? (2012) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How much do characters on the Simpsons like each other? as a story · 2 points
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