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Math ∩ Programming

Personal blog · jeremykun.wordpress.commathprogramming

Math ∩ Programming is a personal blog at jeremykun.wordpress.com about math and programming. Since 2012, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “The Perceptron - All The Things It Can't Perceive”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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31mentions?
14HN people?
2012–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 26 in 2012

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Perceptron - All The Things It Can't Perceive
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-09-26
  2. Eigenfaces, for Facial Recognition
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-08-17
  3. The Fast Fourier Transform
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-07-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. possible · 2012-05-08
    Another: Math ∩ Programming http://jeremykun.wordpress.com He is at the beginning of his academic career (PhD student), but the posts are especially clear and well-written.

    Comment linking /

    on “A set of top Computer Science blogs”
  2. signa11 · 2012-12-17

    Submitted The Fast Fourier Transform as a story · 116 points

    HN discussion
  3. j2kun · 2012-09-26
    PageRank is definitely still used, although it's doubtfully the sole determinant of ranking results. See http://jeremykun.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/googles-page-rank-...

    Comment linking /2011/06/21/googles-page-rank-why-it-doesnt-work-anymore/

    on “Mathematics at Google ”
  4. vgnet · 2012-04-22

    Submitted Kolmogorov Complexity - A Primer as a story · 101 points

    HN discussion
  5. j2kun · 2012-09-26
    Look at the slide entitled Gmail (5), and compare the picture with the first graph on my blog post http://jeremykun.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/the-perceptron-and... It just goes to show, Google steals content without attribution just like everyone else.

    Comment linking /2011/08/11/the-perceptron-and-all-the-things-it-cant-perceive/

    on “Mathematics at Google ”
  6. phenylene · 2012-08-05

    Submitted Machine Learning - Introduction as a story · 72 points

    HN discussion
  7. j2kun · 2012-10-21
    Interesting mathematics can be taught in high schools. In fact, I've tried and had some wonderful results. See my account of it here: http://jeremykun.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/teaching-mathemati... .

    Comment linking /2011/06/26/teaching-mathematics-graph-theory/

    on “The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics Education”
  8. ColinWright · 2012-12-18

    Submitted Graph Coloring, or Proof by Crayon as a story · 47 points

    HN discussion
  9. j2kun · 2015-11-20
    I have a few blog posts, although they are obviously more terse than textbooks in some respects. In order: http://jeremykun.wordpress.com/2012/08/26/metric-spaces-a-pr... http://jeremykun.wordpress.com/2012/11/04/topological-spaces... http://jeremykun.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/constructing-topol... http://jeremykun.com/2013/01/12/the-fundamental-group-a-prim...

    Comment linking /2012/11/11/constructing-topological-spaces-a-primer/

    on “Topology looks for the patterns inside big data”
  10. vgnet · 2012-05-28

    Submitted The Fourier Transform - A Primer as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  11. j2kun · 2015-06-04
    I'm deeply devoted to mathematics, and even I admit that you don't need any math beyond boolean logic and arithmetic to have a successful career as a programmer. The rest of this comment is a pitch. All that being said, I have found that a little bit of math makes programming way more fun. I've been writing a blog called "Math Intersect Programming" [1] for four years now, and it's turned into a little catalogue of…

    Comment linking /2012/12/08/groups-a-primer/

    on “Ask HN: What are some important math topics every programmer should know?”
  12. sew · 2012-10-06

    Submitted Eigenfaces, for Facial Recognition as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  13. j2kun · 2012-08-17
    I wrote a blog post with more detail, and lots of intuitive examples. see http://jeremykun.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/eigenfaces/

    Comment linking /2011/07/27/eigenfaces/

    on “Principle Component Analysis”
  14. ColinWright · 2012-07-20

    Submitted The Fast Fourier Transform as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  15. eranation · 2012-10-07

    Submitted Math ∩ Programming: A place for elegant solutions as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  16. kevinalexbrown · 2012-08-27

    Submitted Metric Spaces — A Primer as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  17. ColinWright · 2012-12-18

    Submitted Linear Algebra – A Primer as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  18. gillett · 2012-10-09

    Submitted Decision Trees and Political Party Classification as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  19. ColinWright · 2012-08-06

    Submitted P vs. NP, A Primer (And a Proof Written in Racket) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  20. gnosis · 2012-03-16

    Submitted Learning Programming: Finger-Painting and Killing Zombies as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  21. misiti3780 · 2012-12-11

    Submitted The Perceptron - All The Things It Can't Perceive as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. kevinalexbrown · 2012-11-10

    Submitted There Are Infinitely Many Primes as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. EdiX · 2012-08-06

    Submitted The Cellular automaton method for cave generation as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. disgruntledphd2 · 2012-06-12

    Submitted Thoughts after a year of Math and Programming as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. vgnet · 2012-04-26

    Submitted The Fourier Series (Primer) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. gnosis · 2012-01-02

    Submitted How I Learned to Love Functional Programming as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. misiti3780 · 2012-12-13

    Submitted Neural Networks And Backpropagation Algorithm as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. kevinalexbrown · 2012-09-17

    Submitted Trees - A Primer as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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