Victor Zhou
victorzhou.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2019
Victor Zhou, a software engineer, writes tutorials on machine learning, web development, and general programming, including building .io games.
What HN saysHN commenters link it for its from-scratch neural network introduction and .io game series, and for a post on replacing Disqus over its data-selling reputation.
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Most-shared posts
- 1How to Build a .io Game by the Creator of Generals.io5 people · 18 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 2Minify Your SVGs4 people · 273 points · first shared 2019 · 65 comments on HN
- 3Avoid Premature Optimization4 people · 8 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 4Implementing a Neural Network from Scratch in Python3 people · 628 points · first shared 2019 · 100 comments on HN
- 5An Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks3 people · 290 points · first shared 2019 · 23 comments on HN
- 6How Not to Serve JavaScript3 people · 10 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
- 7Native image lazy loading for the web3 people · 4 points · first shared 2020 · 1 comments on HN
- 8Random Forests for Complete Beginners2 people · 449 points · first shared 2019 · 37 comments on HN
- 9Switching from Disqus to Commento reduced my page weight2 people · 51 points · first shared 2019 · 18 comments on HN
- 10Neural Networks from Scratch2 people · 34 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
- 11Web Security 101: XSS Attacks2 people · 12 points · first shared 2020 · 1 comments on HN
- 12Easy Visual Question Answering2 people · 9 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 13Keras for Beginners: Building Your First Neural Network2 people · 7 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 14I Became a Programmer Because of Runescape2 people · 6 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
- 15A Simple Explanation of Gini Impurity2 people · 6 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
vzhou842 · 2020-02-08
shameless self plug: https://victorzhou.com has a mix of machine learning, web development, and other topics. You may have seen some posts from there on HN in the past
mybrid · 2021-09-12
Side note; Disqus has a terrible reputation for selling user data.
https://victorzhou.com/blog/replacing-disqus/
I tend to avoid any site that uses it.
lgl · 2019-10-25
I've recently came across some articles by a guy that built and sold some io games. You can read some of what he wrote on his website:
https://victorzhou.com/blog/creating-and-selling-io-games/
melling · 2019-05-09
Here's another Neural Network from scratch that I found useful:
https://victorzhou.com/blog/intro-to-neural-networks/
detaro · 2019-05-05
The intro to the previous article explains it: https://victorzhou.com/blog/build-an-io-game-part-1/
mtmail · 2019-02-28
The tweet basically links to the blog post https://victorzhou.com/blog/properly-size-images/
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