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1. Against LLM Maximalism (explosion.ai)
1 point by softwaredoug 10 hours ago | past | discuss
2. I made a search engine worse than Elasticsearch (2024) (softwaredoug.com)
141 points by softwaredoug 11 days ago | past | 24 comments
3. Parasite Infecting Up to 50% of People Can Decapitate Human Sperm (sciencealert.com)
9 points by softwaredoug 11 days ago | past | 1 comment
4. Live coded vector search engine w/ filtering (Colab notebook) (colab.research.google.com)
3 points by softwaredoug 13 days ago | past | discuss
5. I accidentally built a vector database using video compression (reddit.com)
3 points by softwaredoug 18 days ago | past
6. You Don't Need Re-Ranking: Understanding the Superlinked Vector Layer (superlinked.com)
29 points by softwaredoug 24 days ago | past | 20 comments
7. Tail latency might matter more than you think (2021) (brooker.co.za)
3 points by softwaredoug 26 days ago | past
8. The size bias of text embeddings and its impact on search (jina.ai)
1 point by softwaredoug 26 days ago | past
9. RAG's Big Blindspot (softwaredoug.com)
1 point by softwaredoug 31 days ago | past
10. What is presentation bias in search? (2022) (softwaredoug.com)
2 points by softwaredoug 32 days ago | past
11. The effect of ChatGPT on students learning performance (nature.com)
1 point by softwaredoug 36 days ago | past
12. Building a vector database from scratch [video] (maven.com)
2 points by softwaredoug 39 days ago | past
13. Best Books on Search (tomsquest.com)
3 points by softwaredoug 39 days ago | past
14. Bridging the gap between keyword and semantic search with SPLADE (2024) (arcturus-labs.com)
23 points by softwaredoug 42 days ago | past | 2 comments
15. On the road to building your own vector DB - some basics (softwaredoug.com)
2 points by softwaredoug 42 days ago | past
16. SPFresh: Incremental In-Place Update for Billion-Scale Vector Search (arxiv.org)
3 points by softwaredoug 43 days ago | past
17. Linguistics Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Language Models (arxiv.org)
3 points by softwaredoug 45 days ago | past | 1 comment
18. Understanding Information Architecture (prezi.com)
11 points by softwaredoug 46 days ago | past | 1 comment
19. Two tower models instead of 'hybrid search' (softwaredoug.com)
2 points by softwaredoug 48 days ago | past
20. Stop Overbuilding Evals (softwaredoug.com)
4 points by softwaredoug 51 days ago | past
21. Lucene University (github.com/msfroh)
66 points by softwaredoug 54 days ago | past | 1 comment
22. Roaming RAG – RAG without the vector DB (arcturus-labs.com)
2 points by softwaredoug 54 days ago | past
23. LambdaMART in Depth (2022) (softwaredoug.com)
2 points by softwaredoug 54 days ago | past
24. Hybrid Search Is Just the Beginning: Optimizing the R in RAG [video] (maven.com)
1 point by softwaredoug 59 days ago | past
25. Filtered HNSW search, fast mode (elastic.co)
2 points by softwaredoug 62 days ago | past
26. Show HN: SearchArray – Full text search that feels like a NumPy array (github.com/softwaredoug)
1 point by softwaredoug 62 days ago | past
27. Native filtering for high-recall vector search (turbopuffer.com)
2 points by softwaredoug 63 days ago | past
28. Visual Reasoning Is Coming Soon (arcturus-labs.com)
122 points by softwaredoug 68 days ago | past | 44 comments
29. An LLM Query Understanding Service (softwaredoug.com)
38 points by softwaredoug 68 days ago | past | 3 comments
30. How likely is a given dot product (2023)? (softwaredoug.com)
4 points by softwaredoug 70 days ago | past

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