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We (at Weaviate) support separate BM25, vector, and combined hybrid search, so I can talk about the performance aspect of all of these a lot. The tl;dr is: It's complicated. What y…

Thanks, appreciate your perspective. This is much more insightful than just "affiliated==botnet". I agree that this can be a huge positive and - at least for me - that was the moti…

Fair point, edited my post. The fact that I love the visual design is my personal opinion though :-D

Not sure if that alone is what made Go successful. But yes, having great networking tools in the stdlib is very refreshing! One of the things Go got right.

Love the visual design, too. The generative/RAG/semantic search is the interesting part, but it's also just very pleasant to look at. Which can go a long way. EDIT: Disclaimer, I a…

Hi, the author and long-time Go user here. Let me know if you have any questions. For me the introduction of GOMEMLIMIT finally makes Go a viable choice for high-heap applications.…

I agree, but at the same time now is the easiest it's ever been to create great vectors. Sentence-Bert [1] by Nils Reimers is a collection of pre-trained models specficially traine…

The models that create the vector embeddings are trained on either general or domain specific knowledge. So, to oversimplify it a bit: The model has learned - based on the training…

Spot on! Both of those were motivating factors when building Weaviate (Open Source Vector Search Engine). We really wanted it to feel like a full database or search engine. You sho…

Checkout the open source vector search engine Weaviate: https://github.com/semi-technologies/weaviate It’s not a relational db, but it supports Graph-like connections between objec…

Exactly. See my reply on this comment thread comment thread to see how Weaviate solves the filter-issue by using an inverted index to produce a whitelist of IDs which is then passe…

Main author and architect of Weaviate ( https://github.com/semi-technologies/weaviate ) here. This real-time requirement was one of the major design principles from the get-go in W…

You might be interested in checking out Weaviate ( https://github.com/semi-technologies/weaviate ) which supports combining vector search with boolean filters. In Weaviate, the vec…