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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderI'd like to mention that the research center behind this, the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines (CBMM), has a great youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGoxKRfTs0jQP52cfHCyyRQ Some of my favourite videos: - Neural Representations of Language Meaning - Tom Mitchell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRBf8BWAG3k - Computational cognitive science - Josh Tenenbaum (co-author of probmods) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WQO9e5Mdj4
Good reading. Nice introduction that explains when approaching AI development it's difficult to provide a computer with an exact rigid mechanical model of how the world works, and that's not how we think anyway, but rather we store a lot of small inference models we learned of how things work in general, and then we recall these simple rules to make guesses on what will probably happen in each situation, hence the probabilistic approach to cognition.
The Lisp version (Church) is here[0]. The current version is just a JavaScript library. [0]: http://v1.probmods.org/
Another tutorial by some of the same people which pulls back the covers on the apparent magic in probabilistic programming: http://dippl.org/
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 490
- Total comments
- 36
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-01-15 | Probabilistic Models of Cognition | programmer_babu | 1 | 0 |
| 2014-04-01 | Probabilistic Models of Cognition | rrtwo | 1 | 0 |
| 2014-06-27 | Probabilistic Models of CognitionFirst breakout | Anon84 | 116 | 9 |
| 2015-04-15 | Probabilistic Models of Cognition | poppingtonic | 80 | 1 |
| 2015-05-06 | Probabilistic Models of Cognition | deegles | 6 | 0 |
| 2017-02-02 | Probabilistic Models of CognitionBest thread | pizza | 173 | 16 |
| 2021-12-16 | Probabilistic Models of Cognition (2016) | Tomte | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-03-08 | Probabilistic Models of CognitionLatest 20+ point return | graderjs | 97 | 8 |
| 2023-11-14 | Probabilistic Models of Cognition | MovingTheLimit | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-03-05 | Probabilistic Models of Cognition | tosh | 3 | 1 |
| 2025-03-20 | Probabilistic Models of Cognition | yamrzou | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-05-23 | Probabilistic Models of Cognition | Tomte | 7 | 1 |