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Yacine Mahdid
Personal blog · yacinemahdid.com/paiscience
Yacine Mahdid writes learning with yacine, a personal blog at yacinemahdid.com about ai and science. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “AI Engineering Is Stochastic Software Development”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's explainer on the Muon optimizer. One commenter shared it, with an X thread, as a useful resource for learning Muon.
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.
a newsletter untangling the complexity of deep learning and the brain! ideal for scholars, industry practitioners or toddlers.
Most-linked posts?
- AI Engineering Is Stochastic Software Development2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-21
- How to stop having FOMO as a curious engineer: hold a thread2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-12
- Muon Optimizer Explained to a Toddler2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-19
What Hacker News says?
sharing some useful resrources for learning Muon (since I'm also just catching up on it) - https://x.com/leloykun/status/1846842883967692926 - https://www.yacinemahdid.com/p/muon-optimizer-explained-to-a...
Comment linking /p/muon-optimizer-explained-to-a-toddler
on “NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy”Submitted How to stop feeling lost in tech: the wafflehouse method as a story · 174 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Engineering Is Stochastic Software Development as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Engineering Is Stochastic Software Development as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to stop having FOMO as a curious engineer: hold a thread as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hierarchical Reasoning Model assembly manual for toddlers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Next Frontier for LLM Is Quality Long Context as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Minimax-01 Achieves 1M Token Context Length with Linear Attention (MIT) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's In-Context Learning in Deep Learning and Why It's So Cool? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Within the Chrysalis of Prime Intellect as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to stop having FOMO as a curious engineer: hold a thread as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Muon Optimizer Explained to a Toddler as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You shouldn't build autonomous agent as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shannon Entropy from Theory to Python as a story · 1 points
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