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Continuous Autoregressive Language Models (Calm): A New LLM Architecture [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDowKmd4qe4
1•znpy•49s ago•0 comments

The Three Projections of Doctor Futamura (2009)

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Design System: the art of documented compromise

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Silver Thursday

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1•ValentineC•7m ago•0 comments

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The Trump Family's Immigrant Story(2018)

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The WABL Test: Would anything of value be lost if you delete this?

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The "Bucket Bumping" problem of airline tickets

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The Underground Node Network

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ChatGPT subscription support in Kilo Code

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WorkBench-Pro – PC benchmark designed for developer workflows

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1•johanmcad•32m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Google Books has been effectively killed by the last algorithm update

https://old.reddit.com/r/google/comments/1qn1hk1/google_has_seemingly_entirely_removed_search/
57•adamnemecek•1h ago

Comments

adamnemecek•1h ago
The change happened on or around Jan 21. Overnight the results went from pretty good to absolute trash.

Here are two screenshots taken on Jan 20 and Jan 23 https://bsky.app/profile/adamnemecek.bsky.social/post/3mdbup...

They don't do full text search anymore esp for copyrighted books. I wonder if this is not a regression but an intent to give them a let up in the AI race.

jeffbee•49m ago
It isn't obvious why the left results are preferred over the right results.
advisedwang•46m ago
The left results are contemporary, the right are decades old. That includes editions of the same book --- surely the newer edition is going to be preferred by most readers.
jeffbee•45m ago
I guess. That's not immediately clear to me. However, browsing around on Google Books suggests to me that it is the corpus which changed, not the algorithms.
adamnemecek•43m ago
The corpus is still the same, like searching the name of the book will find it, but the full text search.
mystraline•1h ago
Thats easy.

Check out library genesis, Anna's archive, and scihub for content.

Piracy isnt theft if buying isnt ownership.

adamnemecek•1h ago
None of these does full text search.
jszymborski•1h ago
And they are under constant threat by nation states. sci-hub hasn't seen new papers in ages.
greenavocado•1h ago
Build a local index
adamnemecek•1h ago
My problem is finding references I don't know about.
droopyEyelids•1h ago
zlibrary does

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library

adamnemecek•56m ago
Huh, the search is not amazing but it will have to do. Thanks! Are there others?
teraflop•41m ago
The Internet Archive supports full-text search on (AFAIK) its entire scanned book collection, even books that aren't available for borrowing.
al_borland•1h ago
It might be time to update the mission statement.

“Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”

https://about.google/company-info/

zb3•21m ago
* for us, advertisers and our AI models
xorsula1•1h ago
My guess is they detected being scraped and did this as preventive measure.
breppp•36m ago
my guess is that the copyright landscape changed due to AI training, and these publishers won't let Google use that data anymore
adamnemecek•28m ago
The books are still there, it seems like the rankings have changed though.
kingstnap•1h ago
My guess: Text search and indexing is expensive. And you are getting some kind of AI vector search instead.

Which tends to be kind of poop compared to true text search.

abetusk•56m ago
Anna's Archive [0]:

> The largest truly open library in human history

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_Archive

cft•12m ago
Mirrors https://open-slum.org/
ChrisArchitect•28m ago
Title is: Google has seemingly entirely removed search functionality from most books on Google Books
bryanrasmussen•21m ago
Since I pretty much only use Google Books for public domain books, old magazines, and newspapers I haven't noticed any problem with it. Maybe it's not as dead as this person thinks.
adamnemecek•14m ago
No the search results went from pretty good to absolute garbage https://bsky.app/profile/adamnemecek.bsky.social/post/3mdbup...