Show HN: I wrote a GPU-less billion-vector DB for molecule search (live demo) (cheese-new.deepmedchem.com)

That's also the beauty of evolution–there's no goal in that search algorithm, just open-ended incremental exploration which eventually grows beautiful things.

See Kenneth Stanley's book Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25670869-why-greatness-c...

lovestory · 47m ago

This is the second time someone has recommended this book on HN so for sure it can't be a bad read. I will be starting it tonight

ChrisMarshallNY · 44m ago

I've always found that an "evolutionary" approach to design is important[0].

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/evolutionary-design-specificati...

jacknews · 6m ago

woah this seems like tribalism run riot.

How about just living, and learning to deal with, the rest of society.

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