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• Against LLM Maximalism
  by softwaredougon 6/16/2025, 11:21:46 AM with 0 comments
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  by softwaredougon 6/5/2025, 11:52:14 AM with 3 comments
• Live coded vector search engine w/ filtering (Colab notebook)
  by softwaredougon 6/3/2025, 2:09:20 PM with 0 comments
• I accidentally built a vector database using video compression
  by softwaredougon 5/29/2025, 6:55:32 PM with 0 comments
• You Don't Need Re-Ranking: Understanding the Superlinked Vector Layer
  by softwaredougon 5/23/2025, 5:03:10 PM with 5 comments
• Tail latency might matter more than you think (2021)
  by softwaredougon 5/21/2025, 1:33:20 PM with 0 comments
• The size bias of text embeddings and its impact on search
  by softwaredougon 5/21/2025, 1:24:04 AM with 0 comments
• RAG's Big Blindspot
  by softwaredougon 5/16/2025, 2:41:19 PM with 0 comments
• What is presentation bias in search? (2022)
  by softwaredougon 5/15/2025, 5:01:37 PM with 0 comments
• The effect of ChatGPT on students learning performance
  by softwaredougon 5/11/2025, 2:05:56 PM with 0 comments
• Building a vector database from scratch [video]
  by softwaredougon 5/8/2025, 2:46:43 PM with 0 comments
• Best Books on Search
  by softwaredougon 5/8/2025, 2:35:00 PM with 0 comments
• Bridging the gap between keyword and semantic search with SPLADE (2024)
  by softwaredougon 5/5/2025, 7:13:08 PM with 1 comment
• On the road to building your own vector DB - some basics
  by softwaredougon 5/5/2025, 1:33:43 PM with 0 comments
• SPFresh: Incremental In-Place Update for Billion-Scale Vector Search
  by softwaredougon 5/4/2025, 12:30:28 PM with 0 comments
• Linguistics Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Language Models
  by softwaredougon 5/2/2025, 4:40:55 PM with 1 comment
• Understanding Information Architecture
  by softwaredougon 5/1/2025, 3:03:11 PM with 1 comment
• Two tower models instead of 'hybrid search'
  by softwaredougon 4/29/2025, 4:10:11 PM with 0 comments
• Stop Overbuilding Evals
  by softwaredougon 4/26/2025, 1:09:08 PM with 0 comments
• Lucene University
  by softwaredougon 4/23/2025, 8:37:54 PM with 1 comment
• Roaming RAG – RAG without the vector DB
  by softwaredougon 4/23/2025, 8:15:27 PM with 0 comments
• LambdaMART in Depth (2022)
  by softwaredougon 4/23/2025, 4:13:55 PM with 0 comments
• Hybrid Search Is Just the Beginning: Optimizing the R in RAG [video]
  by softwaredougon 4/18/2025, 12:59:10 PM with 0 comments
• Filtered HNSW search, fast mode
  by softwaredougon 4/15/2025, 5:16:45 PM with 0 comments