I used to think that about Shazam. I had no reasonable idea about how it worked, so much so it really felt like magic (there's a quote to be put here, which I can't find the author here. HN help me).

My 2c of an advice: uncover the magic, learn the innerworkings of such methods. It is a much stronger and more powerful feeling than the "wow" effect you're having right now.

> so much so it really felt like magic (there's a quote to be put here, which I can't find the author here. HN help me).

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Arthur C. Clarke

:)

ha ha, thanks, I knew the HN crew couldn't disappoint on this :)

This presentation briefly describes how it works https://go-talks.appspot.com/github.com/soruly/slides/2018-0...

I'm surprised that trace.moe only needs 430 GB of data to work as well as it does.

By default, it only requires the colorLayout database to work (which is just 133GB). You can see my presentation here: https://github.com/soruly/slides/blob/master/2020-12-trace.m...

I think it will gradually increase as time went on.