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Vincent D. Warmerdam
Personal blog · koaning.iodataprogramming
Vincent D. Warmerdam's personal blog at koaning.io covers data and programming. Since 2015, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 55 times, most often “Math and Recursion = Art”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Math and Recursion = Art3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-07-05
- Finding Bad Labels in the Google Emotions Dataset2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-05
- Uncommon Contributions: Making impact without touching the core of a library2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-24
- Playtesting Candy Crush with Deep Learning2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-24
- The Icewind Dale Problem2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-08-19
- SVGs that feel like GIFs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-08
- Large Disagreement Modelling2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-04
- The Future of Data Science Is Past2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-14
- Mean Squared Terror – GridSearch Is Not Enough2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-28
What Hacker News says?
I like little TIL posts like this, introducing new tools and sharing first-hand experiences with them. Working around restrictions (like using animations in Github Markdown) leads to this kind of creative stuff. I looked at the resulting SVG https://koaning.io/posts/svg-gifs/parrot.svg and realised that a lot of inline SVG elements are used within inline SVG within..the SVG. I've never seen that before. So thank you…
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on “SVGs that feel like GIFs”Submitted SVGs that feel like GIFs as a story · 540 points
HN discussionThe best use case for me is as explained here: https://koaning.io/posts/svg-gifs/
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on “Asciinema: Record and share your terminal sessions”Submitted Python can run Mojo now as a story · 325 points
HN discussionactually, there is a trick that allows you to store the state of your visualisation as you are adding layers. you don't need to have all your data in just one dataframe. http://koaning.io/casino-gambling-simulations-in-r.html
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on “Ggplot2 version 2.0.0 released by Hadley Wickham”Submitted More Descent, Less Gradient as a story · 129 points
HN discussionout of curiosity, how many lines of code do you need in matplotlib to generate http://koaning.io/theme/images/monopoly_plot3.png ? in R, you'll only need one. also i have done this work in a python notebook, you can specify R cells to take pandas dataframes allowing you to still use ggplot2 for plotting. see old video of mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW8Aei2wlsM
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on “Monopoly as a Markov Chain”Submitted The Icewind Dale Problem as a story · 95 points
HN discussionAnother cool article from this website: http://koaning.io/canvas-trees-and-communities.html
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on “Monopoly as a Markov Chain”Submitted Monopoly as a Markov Chain as a story · 95 points
HN discussionGot this point from this page - https://koaning.io/til/2021-10-12-many-notebooks/
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on “1.4M Jupyter Notebooks and only 24.1% of them ran [pdf]”Submitted Mean Squared Terror – GridSearch Is Not Enough as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Future of Data Science Is Past as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Math and Recursion = Art as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finding Text in Comic Books as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Horrible Remedies for Broken Recommenders as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Uncommon Contributions: Making impact without touching the core of a library as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Future of Data Science Is Past as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Applying autoencoding neural networks for better ui in JavaScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Math and Recursion = Art as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted An inverse turing test as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Legos vs. 3D Printers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Benchmarking Permutations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cline Feels Like an Upgrade as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted TIL: Duplications as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Enjoy the Silence – GridSearch Is Not Enough: Part 7 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sentiment Analysis Models and Gender-Race Bias as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Koaning.io: Maths as a Compiler as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mean Squared Terror as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The future of data science is past as a story · 2 points
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