Burak Kanber
burakkanber.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2012
Burak Kanber is a developer who writes about machine learning in JavaScript, physics modeling, and startup lessons.
What HN saysHN commenters share his JavaScript tutorials on k-means and k-nearest-neighbor, and enjoy his SiteChat postmortem and tilde club origin story.
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bkanber · 2016-12-08
I wrote a JS implementation and tutorial on k-means a few years back [1], if anyone is looking for this in the browser. Great writeup, I appreciate the math focus!
[1] http://burakkanber.com/blog/machine-learning-k-means-clustering-in-jav…
danso · 2014-10-09
If tilde club someday dies, either by crushing-traffic, hackers, negligence, commercialization, or acquihire, I'm hoping we get a post-mortem that was as fun to read as this origin story. I would love to even just see more machine configuration details for the "one cheap, unmodified Unix computer on the Internet" that is hosting it.
Reading this post about someone building a community just out of a whim, and then seeing how quickly and quirkily a community can arise from such minimal environment, reminded me of what's still probably my favorite submission I've ever read on HN: http://burakkanber.com/blog/sitechat-a-postmortem-or-the-rise-and-fall…
TallboyOne · 2013-07-08
jfaucett · 2013-03-04
I came across this algorithm today doing research on how to categorize our users based on attributes (or in KNN terminology "features") and activity and then allocate resources accordingly. Heres another nice little intro tutorial showing how an implementation in JS for those interested, http://burakkanber.com/blog/machine-learning-in-js-k-nearest-neighbor-…
I was surprised at the elegant simplicity of this, if anyone has other links or resources to implementations Id really be interested :)