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jeffchuber
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About jeffchuber
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Comment #48470316
then you are not agi pilled
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Comment #48462942
If you are truly bitter-lesson pilled - give the agent all the tools and let it decide which to use. - regex (grep) - hybrid search (bm25+vector) this X vs Y is uninteresting when …
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Comment #47169353
yeah (optional) caching is interesting to think about - incl write_through and write_back
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Comment #47168203
last weekend I vibe-coded a project called `openfs` that plugs into just-bash https://github.com/jeffchuber/just-bash-openfs it puts a bash interface in front of s3, filesystem (re…
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Comment #46628101
try out chroma or better yet as opus to!
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Comment #46109041
i didnt claim to invent it. i claimed swyx heard it through me - which he did
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Comment #46103732
that was me swyx
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Comment #45853048
i support this
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Comment #45799397
Good article - the most use cases i see of pg_vector are typically “chat over their technical docs” - small corpus - doesn’t change often / can rebuild the index - no multi-tenancy…
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Comment #45382369
congrats to factory on the amazing product and release!
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Comment #45170029
chroma stores both
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Comment #44962619
Hey there Chroma is fully OSS - embedded, single-node and distributed (data and control plane). afaik lance distributed is not OSS. We do have plans to release the crate (enabling …
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Comment #44959081
> Supabase/pgVector needs lots of resources when adding new rows to the index -> wish the resources scale up/down automatically. Instead of having to monitor and switch to the next…
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Comment #44958448
very fair! cloud has been in private beta for a year now. we chose to not release it to the public until we were extremely confident in the system and its characteristics. database…
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Comment #44958438
no worries! Chroma and Weaviate are both popular OSS projects, 21k and 14k stars respectively. Weaviate has some features that Chroma does not (yet) - notably vector quantization. …
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Comment #44956615
Qdrant team is also smart! The main reason we have seen people switch from Qdrant to Chroma is for operational simplicity and reliability. With Qdrant you have to size nodes, manag…
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Comment #44954904
thank you!
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Comment #44954901
your customers might have heard of RAG (retrieval augmented generation) before. chroma powers the “R” in RAG. It enables language models to dynamically pull in information to help …
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Comment #44954887
can you tell me more about your use case?
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Comment #44954200
if you want or need to optimize for speed, cost, scalability or accuracy. dedicated solutions have more advanced search features enable more accurate results. search indexing is re…
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Show HN: Chroma Cloud – serverless search database for AI
Hey HN - I’m Jeff, co-founder of Chroma. In December of 2022, I was scrolling Twitter in the wee-hours of the morning holding my then-newborn daughter. ChatGPT had launched, and we…
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Comment #44501507
There is so much signal in job posts - excited to see this launch.
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Comment #44312870
how could i forget!