Gábor Melis
quotenil.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2009
Gábor Melis writes about Lisp, machine learning libraries like MGL, and post-mortems of Google AI Challenge contests.
What HN saysHN links his Planet Wars post-mortem and his posts on literate programming and the MGL-MAT linear algebra library.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Google AI Challenge Winner Post-Mortem4 people · 138 points · first shared 2010 · 3 comments on HN
- 2Adaptive Hashing4 people · 69 points · first shared 2025 · 8 comments on HN
- 3Google AI Challange 2010 Results2 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 4On the Design of Matrix Libraries2 people · 1 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
- 5Where was Control on Lisp Machine keyboards?1 people · 2 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 6Introduction to MGL (part 1)1 people · 1 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 7Introduction to MGL (part 3)1 people · 1 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 8Gábor Melis' () blog - Introduction to MGL (part 2)1 people · 1 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 9Untangling literate programming1 people · first shared 2026
- 10Multifaceted development1 people · first shared 2026
- 11Planet wars.git1 people · first shared 2010
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melisgl · 2026-03-09
- For many languages, we can get away with Untangled LP. See, e.g. https://quotenil.com/untangling-literate-programming.html
- Introducing redundancies (of code, tests, documentation) is our primary tool to increase our confidence in the correctness of the solution: See, e.g. https://quotenil.com/multifaceted-development.html
- Untangled LP has been a good idea even before LLMs. It's even better now, as LLMs can maintain documentation and check it against the code.
junke · 2015-09-22
Regarding the GPU, you might find an interest for MGL-MAT[1]:
"MAT is a linear algebra library for working with multi-dimensional arrays which supports efficient interfacing to foreign and CUDA code. BLAS and CUBLAS bindings are available.". The author's blog is quite interesting to read (see for example [2]).
[1] http://cliki.net/mgl-mat
[2] I http://quotenil.com/On-the-Design-of-Matrix-Libraries.html
LearnYouALisp · 2011-12-24
The first lines seemed familiar:
http://quotenil.com/Planet-Wars-Post-Mortem.html
jbrechtel · 2011-08-02
Here's the post mortem by the winner of the subsequent AI contest: http://quotenil.com/Planet-Wars-Post-Mortem.html
swannodette · 2010-12-02
Can't believe this Reddit quality comment is getting any upvotes. Google AI Challenge is "Yet Another Contest"? Though you may not be surprised, he is, http://quotenil.com/Planet-Wars-Post-Mortem.html/.
mahmud · 2010-03-04
More info here:
http://quotenil.com/Google-AI-Challange-2010-Results.html
dmoney · 2010-12-02
The winner: http://quotenil.com/git/planet-wars.git/