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