{"slug": "ask-hn-anyone-care-to-answer-a-small-survey-about-ml", "title": "Ask HN: Anyone care to answer a small survey about ML?", "summary": "A Hacker News user posted a survey asking developers about their machine learning practices, including programming languages, model architectures, training methods, and familiarity with technical terms. The post invites responses to any of the five questions, covering topics such as Python usage, transformer-based architectures, and knowledge of concepts like softmax and convolution.", "body_md": "| ||||||||||||||||\n1 point by |\nso...since you aren't LLM (i hope!), there's no need to take this seriously and try to address every single question so please reply to any of these: 1. Do you program/develop ML apps? 2. if yes what language do you use: python or...else? 3. Is the architecture you're using transformers based or something else ? 4. do you train the model you're using from scratch? 5. are you familiar with some of these exotic ML-related keywords: softmax, convolution, HDC, QKV, SSM, yudkowsky (lol),hidden statem gradient decay, cosine similarity, cross entropy loss? thanks!\n| |||||||||||||||\n|", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-anyone-care-to-answer-a-small-survey-about-ml", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49502199", "published_at": "2026-08-30 19:58:55+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-30 20:21:56.782657+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["machine-learning"], "entities": ["Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-anyone-care-to-answer-a-small-survey-about-ml", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-anyone-care-to-answer-a-small-survey-about-ml.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-anyone-care-to-answer-a-small-survey-about-ml.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-anyone-care-to-answer-a-small-survey-about-ml.jsonld"}}