Best of 2018

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2018. 292 posts.

AI & Machine Learning
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Letting neural networks be weird

Machine learning algorithms are not like other computer programs. In the usual sort of programming, a human programmer tells the computer exactly what to do. In machine learning, the human programmer merely gives the algorithm the problem to be solved, and through trial-and-error the algorithm has to figure out how to…