> I guess "good" technical writing no longer includes a thesis statement.
Thesis is outlined in the second paragraph:
> What embeddings offer to technical writers is the ability to discover connections between texts at previously impossible scales.
I think it's fair, however, to say that this post is ineffective because it does not provide concrete examples of the thesis in action. My only excuse is that I never intended for this to be a standalone post but life got in the way (in the best possible way!) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43964584
> why would this be useful for technical writing?
You're not going to like this answer, because it's also vague. There are 3 intractable challenges in technical writing. Embeddings can help us make progress on all 3: https://technicalwriting.dev/strategy/challenges.html
Thesis is outlined in the second paragraph:
> What embeddings offer to technical writers is the ability to discover connections between texts at previously impossible scales.
I think it's fair, however, to say that this post is ineffective because it does not provide concrete examples of the thesis in action. My only excuse is that I never intended for this to be a standalone post but life got in the way (in the best possible way!) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43964584
> why would this be useful for technical writing?
You're not going to like this answer, because it's also vague. There are 3 intractable challenges in technical writing. Embeddings can help us make progress on all 3: https://technicalwriting.dev/strategy/challenges.html
See also https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/8057/