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jabo

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    Wonder if white noise counts as noise from this perspective. Or if it’s mainly unexpected noises that make sleep quality worse.

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    The day I discovered that marquee tags have a direction attribute, using which you can make the text go up/down left/right and use multiple of these tags, is still etched in my mem…

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    We generally tend to engage in in-depth conversations with our users. But in this case, when you opened the GitHub issue, we noticed that you’re part of the Meilisearch team, so we…

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    If anyone's interested, a while ago I downloaded the MusicBrainz database and built a search-as-you-type experience here with about 32M songs: https://songs-search.typesense.org Th…

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    We’ve interacted before on Twitter and GitHub, and I want to address your point about Raft in Typesense since you mention it explicitly: I can confidently say that Raft in Typesens…

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    I'm biased, but I'd recommend exploring Typesense for search. It's an open source alternative to Algolia + Pinecone, optimized for speed (since it's in-memory) and an out-of-the-bo…

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    Here's an example of semantic search: Let's say your dataset has the words "Oceans are blue" in it. With keyword search, if someone searches for "Ocean", they'll see that record, s…

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    I work on Typesense [1] - historically considered an open source alternative to Algolia. We then launched vector search in Jan 2023, and just last week we launched the ability to g…

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    We don't plan to support external vector databases, since we want to build Typesense as a vector + keyword search datastore by itself.

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    Typesense has a vector store / search built-in: https://typesense.org/docs/0.24.1/api/vector-search.html In the upcoming version, we've also added the ability to automatically gene…

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    We've been using Struct's Slack bot in Typesense's Slack community here (if you want to see a demo of how it looks): https://threads.typesense.org/kb I love that the discussions we…

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    You can also use this library with Typesense, which is an open source alternative to Algolia: https://github.com/typesense/typesense-autocomplete-demo Disclaimer: I work on Typesen…

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    Typesense: https://typesense.org/docs/0.24.1/api/vector-search.html

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    I get this question frequently - why not use FAISS or ANNOY directly, instead of a vector database, so glad to see this aspect covered in this article. Plug: If you're ever looking…

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    Yup. If you store timestamps as Unix timestamps you can gave Typesense sort on text match score and the timestamp field: https://typesense.org/docs/guide/ranking-and-relevance.html…

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    Plug: If you're ever looking for an open source alternative to Pinecone, we recently added vector search to Typesense: https://typesense.org/docs/0.24.1/api/vector-search.html The …