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Today, I'm announcing Alexandria, an open-source initiative to embed the internet. To start, we're releasing the embeddings for every research paper on the Arxiv. That's over 4m items, 600m tokens, and 3.07 billion vector dimensions. We're not stopping here. Show more

tweets on Twitter and photos on Instagram are public by default, and anyone can follow anyone. The default medium, though, is fundamentally different: Twitter has photos and videos, but the heart of the service is text (and links). Instagram, on the other hand, is nothing but photos and video (and link in bio).

“Amazon is designed to commoditize products to the lowest common denominator of what they stand for,” Joey Zwillinger, Allbirds’s co-founder

In basically every earnings call since, management has raved about how well it’s worked. It’s a lower entry point for readers but also gets them in the habit of paying The Times every month.

Every feature request has a constituency – some group who wants it implemented, because they benefit from it. Simplicity does not have a constituency in the same way, it’s what economists call a non-excludable good – everyone benefits from it.

It’s fair to look at something like a CryptoPunk and ask why it costs so much. But it’s also worth looking at sneakers and asking why they cost so much. It cost $5 dollars to make the shoe, so the rest of the value comes from signaling based on the shoe’s rarity and the narrative told around the shoe.