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I built Delegate because I was tired of babysitting AI coding agents. Cursor is fast but you're in the chair. I wanted to hand off five tasks and come back to PRs with agents alrea…

One of the authors of the post here. I've never heard of this approach but it sounds really cool. Will definitely try it out someday!

We hadn't considered that at all, will definitely check it out and explore further. Thanks!

Yes, it wasn't initially there mostly due to an oversight but we later edited the article.

What is the size and dimensionality of your corpus?

The article isn't meant to present a new library competing with Annoy or other state of the art approaches, but instead, describe how vector search works using short code snippets.…

We did some benchmarking and found that an index of 1M vectors using 15 trees can be built up in ~115 seconds (8 CPU, 8 GB RAM). https://github.com/fennel-ai/fann/pull/8 . Given th…

Apologies, that got omitted by mistake. I've now included the post to include that piece of code as well.

One of the authors of the post here. Happy to take any questions!

One of the post authors here. While building/writing this was fun, FWIW, we were really surprised by how fast the Rust version turned out to be with relatively little effort.

Fennel | Distributed System Engineer | Menlo Park (Bay Area) or Remote | Full time ( https://fennel.ai/ ) Fennel is an ML Infra company building realtime feature engineering platfo…

Model deployment is an important but still tiny part of the overall ranking/recommendation systems. Bulk of the complexity stems from two key properties of recommendation systems (…

(Disclaimer: I'm the author of the post) Good feedback, noted. Will get the next post focused on training within the next couple of days.

Curious - why did people not agree with you? Was it an ideological belief or were they betting on some assumptions that turned out to be incorrect?

That's very interesting. The estimate of 100ns came from here: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs/research/interactive_l... . and is probably not very precise (maybe because it …