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Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

#111
I am a statistician / data scientist who blogs about nifty sampling methods, which are frequently used in rendering computer graphics such as: ray-tracing (via Quasi-Monte Carlo methods), object placement, dithering, etc...

http://www.extremelearning.com.au

All these methods try to find the most efficient sampling techniques that minimize various undesirable effects such as aliasing.

Techniques and topics include: blue noise distributions; low discrepancy quasirandom sequences; orthogonal grid-based sampling; and even-sampling on the surface of n-spheres.

My most favourite articles (two of which have previously been featured on HN) include:

* "The unreasonable effectiveness of quasirandom sequences" http://extremelearning.com.au/unreasonable-effectiveness-of-...

* "A new method to construct isotropic blue noise with uniform projections" http://extremelearning.com.au/isotropic-blue-noise-point-set...

* "Evenly distributing points on a sphere" http://extremelearning.com.au/evenly-distributing-points-on-...

I hope that someone finds some of these useful and interesting. ;)

Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

#112
https://blog.gingerlime.com (RSS available)

Latest posts:

* ranting about bunq bank price hike / tracking

* who wants to be hired tips

* Apple privacy and advertising ID (posting it on HN got me downvoted a couple of times but I don’t know why)

* the cup of coffee pricing fallacy (which was reasonably popular on HN)

Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

#118
Mine is: https://folcon.github.io.

Where are all the github.io blogs, or am I in a minority for deciding to go with a simple github.io?

Granted my blog's pretty small and I may change my mind as it slowly grows bigger.

It's mainly for documenting dev experiences/projects, so if that's your jam, go ahead!

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