Stories by softwaredoug

Against LLM Maximalism

I made a search engine worse than Elasticsearch (2024)

Parasite Infecting Up to 50% of People Can Decapitate Human Sperm

Live coded vector search engine w/ filtering (Colab notebook)

I accidentally built a vector database using video compression

You Don't Need Re-Ranking: Understanding the Superlinked Vector Layer

Tail latency might matter more than you think (2021)

The size bias of text embeddings and its impact on search

RAG's Big Blindspot

What is presentation bias in search? (2022)

The effect of ChatGPT on students learning performance

Building a vector database from scratch [video]

Best Books on Search

Bridging the gap between keyword and semantic search with SPLADE (2024)

On the road to building your own vector DB - some basics

SPFresh: Incremental In-Place Update for Billion-Scale Vector Search

Linguistics Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Language Models

Understanding Information Architecture

Two tower models instead of 'hybrid search'

Stop Overbuilding Evals

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