Hacker Papers

1. 01
   

   A Conceptual Introduction to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

   Michael Betancourt · 2017

   Hacker News threads

   • Feb 2017A Conceptual Introduction to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
   • Nov 2024Overview of differential geometry for Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
   • Sep 2025A Conceptual Introduction to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo [pdf]
   • May 2017How Bayesian Inference Works (2016)
   • Nov 2017Gaussian Distributions Are Soap Bubbles
   • Oct 2018Bayes’ Theorem in the 21st Century (2013) [pdf]
   • Dec 2018Hamiltonian Monte Carlo explained
   • Apr 2019Ask HN: Best place to start learning about Markov Chains?
   • Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
   • Mar 2024Claude 3 Opus reinvented this quantum algorithm from scratch in just 2 prompts
   • Dec 2025What I don’t like about chains of thoughts (2023)

   arXiv ↗
2. 02
   

   Election Predictions as Martingales: An Arbitrage Approach

   Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2017

   Hacker News threads

   • Nov 2020Election Predictions as Martingales: An Arbitrage Approach
   • Nov 2022Election Predictions as Martingales: An Arbitrage Approach: Taleb (2017)
   • Dec 2017The Data That Threatened to Break Physics
   • Dec 2018Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb Twitter war
   • Dec 2018Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb Twitter war
   • Dec 2018Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb Twitter war
   • Dec 2018Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb Twitter war
   • Nov 2020Nassim Taleb vs. Nate Silver: who is right about election forecasting?

   arXiv ↗
3. 03
   

   On the statistical properties and tail risk of violent conflicts

   Pasquale Cirillo, Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2015

   Hacker News threads

   • Feb 2017Violence Has Not Been Declining Over Time
   • Nov 2015On the statistical properties and tail risk of violent conflicts
   • Mar 2018The PowerPoint Philosophe: Waiting for Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment
   • Jul 2022Voyager suspends trading, deposits, withdrawals, and loyalty rewards
   • Feb 2024Stephen Wolfram – 4-Hour Conversational Documentary on My Entire Arc of Life [video]

   arXiv ↗
4. 04
   

   Racial Disparities in Voting Wait Times: Evidence from Smartphone Data

   M. Keith Chen et al. · 2019

   Hacker News threads

   • Sep 2019Racial disparities in voting wait times: evidence from smartphone data
   • Oct 2020Study: Race One of Strongest Predictors of How Long People Wait in Line to Vote
   • May 2021Are we cut out for universal morality?
   • Jun 2023Why Britain Doesn’t Build

   arXiv ↗
5. 05
   

   Towards deep learning with segregated dendrites

   Jordan Guergiuev et al. · 2016

   Hacker News threads

   • Oct 2016Biologically Feasible Deep Learning (new paper)
   • May 2018AI winter is well on its way
   • Nov 2018Ask HN: Is neuroscience-inspired machine learning the next big thing?
   • Jun 2019Ask HN: New Neural Network Primitives?

   arXiv ↗

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