The analysis of Hacker News (HN) reveals a decline in active contributors, with a shift in discussion topics from business to artificial intelligence. The author extracted data from HN's APIs, analyzing user engagement trends and ...
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The author reflects on their experiences of living in six countries across three continents, emphasizing the emotional connections formed with people rather than places. They recount the mix of triumphs and tragedies in their rela...
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0Reflections on blogging
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The post reflects on the idea of blogging, discussing low and high stake blogging, and the importance of communicating work and thoughts. The author is motivated to build the habit of writing and documenting regularly.
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0Hacker News (HN) - Part 1: analysis
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The author conducted an analysis of Hacker News, finding a decline in active contributors, a shift in popular topics, and insights into user engagement trends. They also explored the dynamics of karma and upvoting on HN, and delve...
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0Weird issue with multiprocessing in python…at scale
2023-11-10 •
The author has been working on building a simple game to test ideas and emergent behaviors from agents learning to play a game. The learning is done by evolutionary algorithms or reinforcement learning. The author faced a problem ...
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0Reflections on learning programming
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0French Journey - Part 3
2023-09-23 •
The text describes the author's journey of learning French using data analysis and optimization. The author faced challenges in finding a suitable language course and decided to create a personalized learning process using availab...
0Debunking the Myths of the HBO Chernobyl series
2023-01-05 •
The author debunks the myths of the HBO Chernobyl series, comparing it to the original tapes recorded by Professor Valerie Legasov. The author questions the motives behind the series and its portrayal of the Chernobyl disaster, em...
0A view on France - Part 2
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The author explores the process of learning a new language, particularly French, through reading articles from LeMonde. They analyze the learning process, the optimization of efforts, and the differences between random and curated...