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    Sam Greydanus

    greydanus.github.io · Personal blog · on HN since 2017

    Sam Greydanus is a machine learning researcher who writes about physics-inspired neural networks, small-scale deep learning, and optimization.

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    What HN says

    Commenters call it a beautiful blog and single out the wing optimization and scaling-down posts as favorites.

    Stats for nerds
    22HN people shared it
    20linked in comments
    495story points
    Apr 2025last shared
    2017people per year2025

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      Lagrangian Neural Networks
      1 person · 246 points · first shared 2020 · 49 comments on HN
    2. 2
      Scaling Down Deep Learning
      5 people · 134 points · first shared 2020 · 36 comments on HN
    3. 3
      Finding paths of least action with gradient descent (2023)
      2 people · 74 points · first shared 2023 · 14 comments on HN
    4. 4
      Optimizing a Wing
      2 people · 13 points · first shared 2020 · 1 comments on HN
    5. 5
      Decoding the Enigma with Recurrent Neural Networks
      6 people · 12 points · first shared 2017 · Discussion on HN
    6. 6
      Hamiltonian Neural Networks
      3 people · 3 points · first shared 2019 · Discussion on HN
    7. 7
      Neural Reparameterization Improves Structural Optimization
      1 person · 3 points · first shared 2025 · Discussion on HN
    8. 8
      Three Perspectives on Deep Learning
      1 person · 3 points · first shared 2020 · Discussion on HN
    9. 9
      Simulating the Universe Could Yield Quantum Mechanics
      1 person · 3 points · first shared 2023 · Discussion on HN
    10. 10
      A Structural Optimization Tutorial
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2022 · Discussion on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • dysocoSep 2024

      I remember John Carlos Baez having some interesting stuff: https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/

      Some other ones I had bookmarked the other day but haven't seen much in depth, mostly computer science based but more towards theory/math side:

      https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/

      https://semantic-domain.blogspot.com/

      https://greydanus.github.io/

      Also go to Terry Tao's blog and look at the sidebar, there are a lot of links to external blogs there.

    • xorandMar 2020

      I found the previous Hamiltonian Neural Networks [0]. If the authors are here, I'd be interested to use [1] for a version with dissipation.

      [0] https://greydanus.github.io/2019/05/15/hamiltonian-nns/

      [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04598

    • gwernApr 2025

      Some of the older posts are very cute. I enjoyed https://greydanus.github.io/2020/12/01/scaling-down/ on showing how many high-powered tricks you can do with a tiny NN of the sort that will train in seconds.

    • CGamesPlayJan 2023

      This is somewhat related: how do we build datasets that are better discriminators of model architectures, and are also easier to experiment on?

      https://greydanus.github.io/2020/12/01/scaling-down/

    • nailloDec 2022

      This is a beautiful blog, e.g. this one is one of my favorites https://greydanus.github.io/2020/10/14/optimizing-a-wing/

    • brudgersAug 2017

      Original source, https://greydanus.github.io/2017/01/07/enigma-rnn/

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