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Post by quantadev » Sat, May 24, 2025, 8:24 PM UTC

never_inline wrote: post #26

quantadev wrote: post #25

Thought Experiment: Imagine if we had a true "Perma-Web" where something like IPFS was keeping a permanent record of every web page. Then we could have a "Semantic Web" where each webpage maps to a single point (it's Vector Embedding) in higher dimensional space. This would mean you could do things like: 1) Write a blog post, and then find all other blog posts that were the 'closest to yours' that was ever written. 2…

Cosine similarity alone can't give you good results. For example, if you want to search specific names or acronyms, cosine similarity won't help much. People act like embeddings are all you need for search. Curse of dimensionality also means what you think is the most similar is not necessarily the most similar thing in vector space. See the last Hn discussion on word embeddings for some examples.

Post by quantadev » Sun, May 25, 2025, 2:18 AM UTC

never_inline wrote: post #32

quantadev wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not claiming Cosine Similarity can do things it can't do. I'm claiming it's useful to find related pages, in a very powerful way, and I'm correct.

You literally wrote it can be more powerful than Google search.

Post by RugnirViking » Mon, May 26, 2025, 9:20 AM UTC

imadj wrote: post #9

RugnirViking wrote: post #7

sounds like fun. Perhaps a little too much fun. This sort of algorithmic thing keeps people on social media all day. So be aware folks this can only lose you time working. (no shade to you, OP. Seems like a cool idea, great that it exists. Just that if there were the option to turn this off on most social media I would probably take it)

It's harsh to compare this to social media personalized feeds when it's fundamentally different. > if there were the option to turn this off on most social media I would probably take it This extension has 'manual' mode which only show the search field by default and then you get to fetch results at your command. Very much like an embedded search engine. Its functionality is more like the book recommendations you com…

Post by imadj » Tue, May 27, 2025, 6:20 AM UTC

RugnirViking wrote: post #35

imadj wrote: post #9

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It's harsh to compare this to social media personalized feeds when it's fundamentally different. > if there were the option to turn this off on most social media I would probably take it This extension has 'manual' mode which only show the search field by default and then you get to fetch results at your command. Very much like an embedded search engine. Its functionality is more like the book recommendations you com…

I think of it like stack overflow's recommended questions feed, which I also turn off. Its fun, but a time sink