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I felt the same way. It started slow and I nearly quit, but something beneath the surface kept me reading. After 50 pages or so, I was hooked. It's an amazing book. The only other book that pulled me in that deeply in a couple of last years was Blood Meridian.

> You can't think well without writing well, and you can't write well without reading well.

I'd like this to be true, but Socrates immediately comes to mind as a perfect counter example of someone who was opposed to writing and was arguably one of the greatest thinkers ever.

I attribute the excitement of the VC and CEO cast to the same underlying motive, but I think there are at least several other ways all this could play out:

- the Cul-de-Sac: AI progress flattens as scaling data and compute, RL and algorithmic improvements hit diminishing returns.

- democratization: LLMs decentralize, mirroring the shift from mainframes to personal computers.

- AI creates new jobs and thus new dependencies for the capitalist class

- Any combination of the above.

yes, you are correct, sorry for the ambiguity and late reply.

From my own experience, "only" deep and intense breathing for not more than 5 minutes can alter state of mind drastically.

According to the article (and the discussed research) this was only a minor factor:

"The researchers also explored the possibility that index changes are more predictable today than in the past, leading sophisticated market participants to trade ahead of the events. They concluded that this played only a minor role in their findings, however."

The two main factors being:

"...an increase in migrations over time from the S&P MidCap 400 index, and an overall increase in the market's ability to provide liquidity to those investors seeking to buy and sell around the time of index changes.

The additional liquidity has 'made it easier for everyone to trade, and as a result, the prices move less.' says Dr. Greenwood.

And with more stocks migrating to the S&P 500 from the S&P MidCap 400, midcap funds are selling as S&P 500 funds are buying, leading to 'a wash' in demand, he says.

"

> I read all his novels (and some of his short stories), he's one of my favorite authors

That makes at least two of us. :) But, I suspect there are quite a few more HN readers who like Kafka's works and literature in general (the first is arguably very correlated to the other), judging from how often literature related articles appear on the HN front page. Often, when that is the case I also can't help but wonder the same about the correlation between being a fiction and HN reader.

> Vector search, though, isn't as good on handling typos and not good at all when it comes to as you type searching. Vehic won't match on auto, for example.

This is incorrect in general case and it entirely depends on the model that is used to produce word vectors and the text corpus the model is trained with.

For instance, fastText model is trained on words, but also their parts (n-grams), so it should produce word vectors that would be close (in cosine-distance) to vectors of their corresponding typos and partials, even if the text corpus that was used to train the model doesn't contain same typos and partially typed words verbatim.

Hi,

This is an awesome project, congratulations!

Could you share details about the machine translation engine that is used (or where to find out more about it)? Are there any plans to open source the extension code (with the WebAssembly optmizations that are mentioned in the article)?

Thanks.

I can experience something similar with the ventilation system in my apartment. Usually, the sound of it is immersed in the background noise together with other sounds coming from the outside, so most of the time I'm not aware of it at all. However, sometimes when I meditate I hear it and if I focus my attention on it, after a while it becomes clear and loud, rich and versatile, not unlike a music played on a wind instrument.