Best of 2014

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2014. 57 posts.

AI & Machine Learning
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AI

Yesterday at lunch a friend asked me what tech trend he should pay attention to but was probably ignoring. Without thinking much I said “artificial intelligence”, but having thought about that a...

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How to Conquer Tensorphobia

A professor at Stanford once said, If you really want to impress your friends and confound your enemies, you can invoke tensor products… People run in terror from the $ \otimes$ symbol. He was explaining some aspects of multidimensional Fourier transforms, but this comment is only half in jest; people get confused by…