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Hi all - Hammad here, CTO of Chroma. We’ve been working closely with teams building AI systems for the software engineering stack - autocomplete bots, PR review agents, and code as…

You will always find a copy of McLuhan on the Chroma teams bookshelf !

Yes! It can - https://docs.trychroma.com/docs/querying-collections/metadat...

That is helpful feedback, thank you. We'll address this.

Hi! Hammad here - Chroma’s CTO. First off, I have an immense amount of respect for the Turbopuffer team, they’ve build a solid product. I understand your point. Chroma Cloud has be…

There is an abundance of discussion on this thread about whether models are intelligent or not. This binary is an utter waste of time. Instead focus on the gradient of intelligence…

I've taken the linked Russ Tedrake class and have to say I loved this. Please make more!

It’s COOL

If segmented hsnw indices were O(N log N) - it would make no sense to build the index at all - brute force would be better as O(N log N) > O(N)

Sure, I see. I think this is an area where complexity analysis doesn’t lead to useful information. To be more correct it’s O(N/C log C) where C is the capacity of a segment. In thi…

a lot of game engines have higher level shading languages (often visually programmed) that are long-lived and widely used.

"The obstacle is that until now, off-the-shelf vector databases could not index a dataset larger than memory, because both the full-resolution vectors and the index (edge list) nee…

+1 I was ready to drop $$$

Curious - what was the specific leaderless replication strategy?

I don't think that - I am speaking generally.

I don't think its the role of the government to penalize layoffs. If a company needs to do a layoff to remain viable it must be allowed to - the downside (everyone loses their job)…

There is a fundamental disconnect between industry and academia here.

Yeah, was thinking the same thing. Something deeper to be explored here esp due to the consistency across domains. I wonder how far we can push "externalizing" higher level informa…