Most popular posts of 2024

I looked at Hacker News to see which posts on this site were most popular. I didn’t look at my server logs, but generally the posts that get the most traffic are posts that someone submits to Hacker News.

Older posts popular this year

Two posts written earlier got a lot of traffic this year, namely

Writes large correct programs

from 2008 and

Where has all the productivity gone?

from 2021.

Posts written this year

The most popular post this year, at least on Hacker News, was

Why does FM sound better than AM?

The runner up was

Evaluating a class of infinite sums in closed form

The following post looks at a way for a satellite to move from one orbit to another that under some circumstances is more efficient (in terms of fuel, not in terms of time) than the more common Hohmann transfer maneuver.

Efficiently transferring to a much higher orbit

This post considers interpolation as a form of compression. Instead of saving a table of function values at fine-grained intervals, you could store values at points further apart and store interpolation formulas for recovering the lost precision.

Compression and interpolation

One of the arguments between Frequentist and Bayesian statisticians is whether you should be allowed to look at data as it accrues during an experiment, such as in A/B testing. If you do look at the interim data, how should you analyze it and how should you interpret the results?

Can you look at experimental results along the way or not?

Finally, I wrote a post about solving a problem I ran into with the command line utility find. As is often the case, I got a lot of useful feedback.

Resolving a mysterious problem with find

 

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