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Show HN: Crunching 1,200 Authors' Favorite Reads of 2023

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We present the 100 most-read books that 1,234 authors & super readers picked as one of their 3 favorite reads in 2023.

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Beyond Q-Star: OpenAI’s AGI breakthrough possible with PPO

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This shift signifies PPO’s prominence as OpenAI’s enduring favorite, echoing Peter Welinder’s anticipation: “Everyone reading up on Q-learning, Just wait until they hear about PPO.” OpenAI, a pivotal AGI researcher, recently transitioned from Q* to focus on Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO).

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My talk on CSS runtime performance

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The recording is available online: [link] (You can also read the slides.) This is one of my favorite talks I've ever given. A few months ago, I gave a talk on CSS performance at performance.now in Amsterdam. It was the product of months (honestly, years) of research, prompted by a couple questions: What is the…

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Is Bach the greatest achiever of all time?

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I’ve been reading and rereading biographies of Bach lately (for some podcast prep), and it strikes me he might count as the greatest achiever of all time. That is distinct from say regarding him as your favorite composer or artist of all time. I would include the following metrics as relevant for that designation: 1. …]

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Best Data Visualization Projects of 2023

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These are my ten favorites from the year. Read More Data continues on its upwards trajectory and with it comes the importance of visualization. Many charts were made in 2023. If I liked something, it was on FlowingData.

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Best Data Visualization Projects of 2022

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Every year, I pick my favorite data visualization projects, which tend to cover a wide range of purposes but are typically for presentation. Here are my favorites for 2022. Read More.

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Proust's Panmnemonicon

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It’s only January 3, but one thing is clear already: 2024 is going to be the Year of Reading Proust. The great Ryan Ruby has just published this fine piece on our favorite bedridden French mama’s boy. Everyone, but everyone, on social media is boasting of their firm resolution to do so.

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