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> It is a fine thing when a man who thoroughly understands a subject is unwilling to open his mouth, and only speaks when he is questioned. Yoshida Kenko, Essays in Idleness

been a lot of these RAG abstractions posted recently. As someone working on this problem, it's unclear to me whether the calculation and ingestion of embeddings from source data sh…

There's an issue in the pgvector repo about someone having several ~10-20million row tables and getting acceptable performance with the right hardware and some performance tuning: …

After seeing raw source text performance, I agree that representational learning of higher-level semantic "context clusters" as you say seems like an interesting direction.

For those who don't know: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html I agree with you for the NLP domain, but I wonder if there will also be a bitter lesson learned …

i don't disagree with the premise that Google should be responsible and explicitly acknowledge that the average computer-interested person trying out bigquery has no clue how sharp…

> to store and retrieve retrieve != query this project is extremely simplistic in regards to its vector search tech. pgvector is an open source implementation of an _index_ (multip…

I am not sure what you mean specifically by 'overlapping'. But high-dimensional vector space is really "big" in the sense that everything is way closer together compared to low dim…

i think the confusion comes from the mixup between the words "database", "store", and "index". Vector "store" is trivial, even for hundreds of millions of vectors you are still in …

Thank you for the response, it is helpful. I am not used to Python and know that I am not using the language well. So I think it is worth focusing on this. > not to make huge (also…

Young engineer here in charge of a project and feeling quite out of their depth, I agree with this. Currently no mentorship and it will take a couple months for a senior hire. Do y…

I am a working programmer who, despite learning basic cs, calculus and linear algebra in high school, was actually trained as a philologist[1]. After receiving my B.A. my path to e…

I agree, vector search on music seems pretty obvious at this point.

the doctrine is that only things that are 'novel' and 'non-obvious' (to a 'person having ordinary skill in the art') can be patented, and any accessible published material (among o…

this combo technique sounds useful, is it something like reviewing memory palaces with spaced repetition, instead of reviewing standalone information?

i don't like _auto_complete, i find that the nondeterminstic text changes on the screen are pretty distracting. however, I do really like quick lookup of relevant names at my own w…

I don't understand your simile. The limitations of a bicycle are infrastructure: bicycles can go a lot of places very efficiently, but rugged mountain terrain without trails (preci…

Me neither. Memory palaces also show that this effect can be emulated (not sure if that's the right word) in the mind. I wonder if there is a way for computers to encourage develop…

hi, as a meditator and epileptic my curiosity is piqued. When you say 'this link', did you mean OP or is there a link you meant to add to your comment? if the latter I would be kee…

maybe neurofeedback? https://web.archive.org/web/20110710194522/www.epilepsyhealt... wikipedia claims there is not much recent research when it references that link. it is being sh…

i have the same troubles in social situations with too many inputs. i am quite frankly asocial because of it, though i don't necessarily want to be. do you mind if i ask what your …

not parent but as someone with temporal lobe epilepsy, in addition to what parent describes, difficulty recalling words is definitely something i experience. Probably the most anno…

i recently had my first generalized seizure and once i knew and talked with doctors who confirmed it as primarily TLE i realized i had been having focal seizures for years. i think…

Primarily medication. Fasting has a long (ancient) history as a treatment for epilepsy, the modern revival and investigation of the ketogenic diet specifically relates to certain t…