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1401 points alankay | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.224s | source

This request originated via recent discussions on HN, and the forming of HARC! at YC Research. I'll be around for most of the day today (though the early evening).
1. erwinflaming ◴[] No.11964060[source]
Hi Alan,

Imagine we have already gotten to a place where software hasn't been built like pyramids but with some serious object architecture. Let's just assume a Benjamin Franklin turned this computer science into a real science(as the good old Ben did with electricity). We're there. There are now trillions of objects within my reach, without creating a huge indexing table and depending on data, how do I reach the object I am looking for?

This was a huge problem on the internet and Google had a solution that many tolerated and even accepted. In biology you have structures and many cells compose bodies but as I understand it, the objects would be like functioning cells scattered around on the floor. Maybe give me a general and vague idea what the process for this input could look like: "discover songs that I might like but have never heard before"(I have a hard time dealing with abstractions).

Thank you!