I find texts wonderful. If there was a rank of 7 Wonders of Evolution - texts would definitely take one of the prizes. Ok, that's not true - but at least they would receive my sincere democratic vote, and after that lose to such important crowd pleasers like Football and YouTube… Nevertheless, I have been thinking in text for quite a while, including this very moment, and most probably would continue doing so in the future. Also, around 3 years ago texts started gaining a lot of attention - you know, LLMs and all that stuff. So I decided that they could be a great and pretty important topic to cover them with an essay.

Let me briefly introduce myself. Sometimes it's great to be just a random folk on the internet, but this position doesn't really help in building trust. So, I would try to balance it. My name is Valerii. My craftsmanship is building software. Also - teaching others how to build it. I saved enough, dropped out of the regular job market, and decided to focus on a thing I love, the Art, which was the closest to my heart: Building Software. Data management and AI for Biotech - this is what my small company does.

As you could see, I have a little bit of a crush on complex topics. That's why, while I'll try my best to keep things simple, I would also try to allocate some space for the imaginary part. Due to my occupational bias, this text can have recursion or a bit of Time incoherence. I wanted to bring this as a warning sign, and I hope it won't bother you too much. All in all, these two are also just imaginary things. If that works well enough for you, then let's start and discuss the Text in Text.

I hope to have your attention by now, and If it is True, Then "Hello, dear Reader"

As a software engineer I see text as an interface. And it's absolutely amazing. From the engineering perspective you always aim to provide the information which is sufficient for achieving some goal, and at the same time make sure that only necessary information is transferred. Of course, you can have some redundancy, but not more than needed for smooth message interpretation and error correction.

Comparing to the other methods of sending the message, like voice, or images, or videos, text has unique abstraction properties. It gives your imagination much more space. Think about how cool it is to make your own personalized voiceover for everyone! And yo...

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