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...n the much smaller player has no choice at all. But even among peers, there's a combinatorial explosion of possible collaborations. Each collaboration requires tons of bespoke partnership, engineering, and marketing work. If no individual partnership cl...
...ne unit of squishness[ant] requires an order of magnitude more hard rules. This combinatorial explosion is what A Small Matter of Programming ran into. Before, the only way to do squishy things was to have a human in the loop, but humans are expensive a...
...better than any existing human.[aow] The number of combinations of domains is a combinatorial explosion[aox]; there must be some sparsity to the coverage of real experts who have precisely that overlapping expertise. LLMs are thus great tools for helpin...
...than communicating directly through vibe-embeddings in your own head. There's a combinatorial explosion of details to dig into as you pop each layer down. As you dive into details, especially if you're intellectually intimidating or outrank the person, ...
...ll detail would require you to exhaustively serialize its details, leading to a combinatorial explosion of detail. That detail would take forever to actually unspool. But more importantly, no one else will have the patience to listen and absorb it even ...
...to explain it. Especially for complex domains, where proving it would require a combinatorial explosion of detail.
...he global one is too hard with even a tiny number of dimensions because it is a combinatorial explosion of space. The curse of dimensionality is that if you have too many dimensions the examples will get too sparse to guide you.
...evious one; to fully explain it requires serializing it in a process that has a combinatorial explosion. For a complex insight, that excruciating length can make it so no one else has the patience to sit and receive it. So instead you communicate factor...
... create surprising, novel, emergent value. As the system gets larger, you get a combinatorial explosion of precise, brittle, API wires holding it all together. It gets more and more expensive to change anything fundamental, or to build a new kind of thi...
... a crafting table to create more things that can be used to make more things, a combinatorial explosion of possibility that smoothly reveals itself to you. Never feeling taught, feeling a sense of discovery. A concept that would be cool: Minecraft for y...
...e are more ways to bucket a set of things than the things themselves. This is a combinatorial explosion. Imagine trying to add a feature to allow sharing with family members. One team gets stuck down a rabbit hole of trying to capture the full semantics...
...nt to support as many existing "good" uses as possible, you'll have to design a combinatorial explosion of finicky, oddly-shaped carve-outs. You can think of this as taking a fractally wrinkled, living sprawling thing and trying to cram it into a new, s...
...u build opens up other adjacent nodes, too. The frontier of possibilities has a combinatorial explosion... so you need some way to decide which ones to invest in. Parallels to the Assembly Theory academic paper I linked last week. Imagine a north star r...