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Windows isn’t quite like Linux in that typically apps don’t make syscalls directly. Maybe you could say what’s in ntdll is the system call contract, but in practice you call the su…

You can do this in Windows too, useful if you want tiny executables that use minimum resources. I wrote this little systemwide mute utility for Windows that way, annoying to be mis…

Fair point on latency, we (Azure AI Search) target both scenarios with different features. For instant search you can just do the usual hybrid + rerank combo, or if you want query …

Code-golfed Game of Life in Javascript we wrote a while back with some friends. Always surprising how much abuse Javascript can take: https://shorterlife.github.io/challenge/

For another set of measurements that support RRF + Hybrid > vectors, we (Azure AI Search team) did a bunch of evaluations a few months ago: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/a…

(Disclaimer: I work in this team) More details, including old vs new limits: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ai-azure-ai-services-...

It depends on the scenario. For example, for concept-seeking queries, vectors tend to do better (less likely to be an overlap in words between query and content), whereas for keywo…

Here's a bit of a quantification of the point Doug makes. Indeed, for a number of scenarios you get better results if you combine vector search and keyword search into a hybrid ret…

Agreed, vector search is great but it's only one of many tools you can use to create a great search solution. We recently did a bunch of evaluation work to quantify the differences…

Microsoft (Azure Cognitive Search team) | Engineering Manager | Full-Time | Onsite (multiple locations) The Cognitive Search team continues to grow. We're looking for engineering m…

A friend forked the original I posted and did exactly that: https://nbruno234.github.io/hello-world/lifewar.html