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any reason why you guys are on the front page of hn every single day?

by thwy12321 8y ago

dang 8y ago
I don't think that's close to true? However, this post and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18079479 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18079479, which is related, made it into the second-chance queue (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and the links back from there). Not for any particular reason; they just looked like two good articles that the community might be interested in, which seems to be the case.
- jph00 8y ago
  Due to our teaching and research cycle, we do generally release a bunch of related things about once a quarter, around when new courses come out. So generally you won't see any fast.ai related news for a few months, then a few things might pop up in quick succession. That might make it feel like we're appearing on HN "every day". (In fact, we have a major software release coming up next week - and then nothing planned until well in to 2019.)
  - dang 8y ago
    That's very natural, and we see this kind of clustering in many contexts on HN. You're right that a few posts in quick succession starts to feel like "all the time". Users come to HN to find unpredictable things, so the feeling of "haven't I just seen something about this" makes them cranky.
  - goodstuff9 8y ago
    This is good stuff. Please don't feel unwelcome. Although the crowd here isn't the best suited for ML honestly (in terms of % distribution), please come join us on reddit.com/r/programming or boards.4chan.org/g
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- thwy12321 8y ago
  Quick glance at the ratio of comments to up votes shows somewhat of an outlier on this front page. Not trying to cause an uprising here, it's just that almost all ML content on this website will have a highly up voted fast.ai comment. Maybe I need to look into if it is that good...

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any reason why you guys are on the front page of hn every single day?

by thwy12321 8y ago

any reason why you guys are on the front page of hn every single day?

dang 8y ago
I don't think that's close to true? However, this post and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18079479 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18079479, which is related, made it into the second-chance queue (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and the links back from there). Not for any particular reason; they just looked like two good articles that the community might be interested in, which seems to be the case.
- jph00 8y ago
  Due to our teaching and research cycle, we do generally release a bunch of related things about once a quarter, around when new courses come out. So generally you won't see any fast.ai related news for a few months, then a few things might pop up in quick succession. That might make it feel like we're appearing on HN "every day". (In fact, we have a major software release coming up next week - and then nothing planned until well in to 2019.)
  - dang 8y ago
    That's very natural, and we see this kind of clustering in many contexts on HN. You're right that a few posts in quick succession starts to feel like "all the time". Users come to HN to find unpredictable things, so the feeling of "haven't I just seen something about this" makes them cranky.
  - goodstuff9 8y ago
    This is good stuff. Please don't feel unwelcome. Although the crowd here isn't the best suited for ML honestly (in terms of % distribution), please come join us on reddit.com/r/programming or boards.4chan.org/g
    - deleted 8y ago
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- thwy12321 8y ago
  Quick glance at the ratio of comments to up votes shows somewhat of an outlier on this front page. Not trying to cause an uprising here, it's just that almost all ML content on this website will have a highly up voted fast.ai comment. Maybe I need to look into if it is that good...