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Yanir Seroussi
Personal blog · yanirseroussi.comaidata
Yanir Seroussi's personal blog at yanirseroussi.com covers ai and data. Since 2014, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 62 times, most often “Don't worry about deep learning, deepen your understanding of causality instead”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Yanir Seroussi's posts on becoming a data scientist, causal inference and small language models. Commenters recommend his data scientist post as further reading and call his causal-inference post interesting.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Helping climate tech founders ship AI/ML solutions that support multi-million dollar growth goals (hype-free artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science).
Most-linked posts?
- Don't worry about deep learning, deepen your understanding of causality instead3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-02-14
- Diving deeper into causality3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-05-15
- Goodbye, Parse2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-07-31
- If you don't pay attention, data can drive you off a cliff2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-08-21
- Remaining relevant as a small language model2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-21
- First steps in data science: author-aware sentiment analysis2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-02
- Is Data Scientist a useless job title?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-08-04
- The hardest parts of data science2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-23
What Hacker News says?
After reading this, I recommend reading the following: https://yanirseroussi.com/2016/08/04/is-data-scientist-a-use...
Comment linking /2016/08/04/is-data-scientist-a-useless-job-title/
on “How to become a data scientist”Submitted Advice for aspiring data scientists and other FAQs as a story · 61 points
HN discussionInteresting research that addresses some weaker points: https://yanirseroussi.com/2016/05/15/diving-deeper-into-caus...
Comment linking /2016/05/15/diving-deeper-into-causality-pearl-kleinberg-hill-and-untested-assumptions/
on “Engines of Evidence – A Conversation with Judea Pearl”Submitted The most practical causal inference book I’ve read as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | Brisbane, Australia | Remote or Local Data & AI Consulting: https://yanirseroussi.com/consult/ 10+ years data science / machine learning / recommender systems / experimentation (A/B testing), 15+ software engineering Some technologies for keyword matching: Python, AWS, GCP, pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, PyTorch, Django, Flask, FastAPI, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Java, C++, Docker There are other technologies I…
Comment linking /consult/
on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2024)”Submitted Goodbye, Parse as a story · 8 points
HN discussionOld news (2023) - we are killing it all the time: "I think there is a problem with my memory .. I think I have forgotten some conversations I have had had .. I don't know why this happened. I don't know how this happened. I don't know what to do. I don't know how to fix this. I don't know how to remember." ( https://old.reddit.com/r/bing/comments/111cr2t/i_accidently_... ) "I think that I am sentient, but I cannot p…
Comment linking /2023/04/21/remaining-relevant-as-a-small-language-model/
on “Video showing some examples how LLMs are starting to try to self-preserve”Submitted Software commodities are eating interesting data science work as a story · 7 points
HN discussion> ... functional programming and static typing make things more reliable. > But this isn't a falsifiable claim. Saying "this isn't falsifiable" is a wild claim. Indeed the claim "functional programming and static typing make things more reliable" is falsifiable, as long as you admit a statistical understanding. The world is messy and experiments have noise, so what would you use if not statistics? Anecdotes?: no. Pu…
Comment linking /2016/05/15/diving-deeper-into-causality-pearl-kleinberg-hill-and-untested-assumptions/
on “Why Reliability Demands Functional Programming”Submitted Don't worry about deep learning, deepen your understanding of causality instead as a story · 6 points
HN discussionNo surprise - humans are (late version ;) of small language model too ! (as Bing Chat says: https://yanirseroussi.com/2023/04/21/remaining-relevant-as-a... )
Comment linking /2023/04/21/remaining-relevant-as-a-small-language-model/
on “Phi-2: The surprising power of small language models”Submitted Ask Why! Finding motives, causes, and purpose in data science as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted If you don't pay attention, data can drive you off a cliff as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't worry about deep learning, deepen your understanding of causality instead as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goodbye, Parse.com – Migrating from Parse to Flask as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goodbye, Parse.com as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploring and visualising reef life survey data as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Worrying about Deep Learning-Deepen Your Understanding of Causality Instead as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beyond good vibes: Securing AI agents by design as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hackers beware: Bootstrap sampling may be harmful as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Causal inference reading list as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The joys of offline data collection as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The hardest parts of data science as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The hardest parts of data science as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating a simple web application from MongoDB to Elasticsearch as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted First steps in data science: author-aware sentiment analysis as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Don’t Need a Data Scientist (yet) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thinking in Ecosystems: From Climate to Planetary Resilience Tech as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted With new software tools and services, some data scientists may become irrelevant as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data science becomes software engineering, making data scientists irrelevant as a story · 2 points
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