GradientAssent

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   by GradientAssent 6y ago

   > Based on the really, really crappy results that google gaves me out lately People on Hacker News seem to think Google's results have gotten worse over time. Maybe they have for the narrow set of interests and requirements of this
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   by GradientAssent 6y ago

   Would you pay, say, $120/year? What if it wasn't nearly as good as Google yet?
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   by GradientAssent 6y ago

   Google's revenue per user is unfortunately much higher than $10/year.
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   by GradientAssent 6y ago

   Sounds like a great opportunity for you to enter the market and capture one of these alternative revenue channels with your ad-free search engine.
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   by GradientAssent 6y ago

   And when effectively no users opt in to advertising, how does the search engine stay in business? It does actually cost money to operate a good search engine.
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   by GradientAssent 6y ago

   Anyone have a mirror?
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   by GradientAssent 6y ago

   I'm not sure splitting off the crawler would have the effect you want it to. Crawling is hard, but actually one of the easier parts of building a search engine. There are less complete, but still pretty impressive public crawls availab
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   by GradientAssent 6y ago

   I guess the present day somehow seems more relevant?
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   by GradientAssent 6y ago

   One reason to care which is bigger is the effect they each will have on the norms of governance around the world. Superpowers tend to nudge the rest of the world's governments to be more like them (see Britain and the US over the last
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    by GradientAssent 6y ago

    TFJS, yep!
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    by GradientAssent 6y ago

    Many games still aren't available on Mac, and things like Wine are not nearly as clean of an experience as just installing games in native Windows. I'd guess switching to ARM will set back the progress made in Mac gaming as well.
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    by GradientAssent 6y ago

    I made a tool for visualizing text in 3D: https://nebulate.ai It runs a machine learning model in your browser to convert the text into points in a high dimensional space, and then it projects those points down to 3D. Right now
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    by GradientAssent 6y ago

    I'm working on a project right now where the centerpiece is a Three.js scene. It's about data visualization, so the surrounding code covers much of the same ground as a typical single-page web app: fetching data, UI for manipulati