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softwaredoug

joined 9/16/13, 3:05 PM has 12929 karma

• I made a search engine worse than Elasticsearch (2024)

  by softwaredoug on 6/5/25, 6:37 PM, with 24 comments

• Parasite Infecting Up to 50% of People Can Decapitate Human Sperm

  by softwaredoug on 6/5/25, 11:52 AM, with 1 comments

• Live coded vector search engine w/ filtering (Colab notebook)

  by softwaredoug on 6/3/25, 2:09 PM, with 0 comments

• I accidentally built a vector database using video compression

  by softwaredoug on 5/29/25, 6:55 PM, with 0 comments

• You Don't Need Re-Ranking: Understanding the Superlinked Vector Layer

  by softwaredoug on 5/23/25, 5:03 PM, with 20 comments

• Tail latency might matter more than you think (2021)

  by softwaredoug on 5/21/25, 1:33 PM, with 0 comments

• The size bias of text embeddings and its impact on search

  by softwaredoug on 5/21/25, 1:24 AM, with 0 comments

• RAG's Big Blindspot

  by softwaredoug on 5/16/25, 2:41 PM, with 0 comments

• What is presentation bias in search? (2022)

  by softwaredoug on 5/15/25, 5:01 PM, with 0 comments

• The effect of ChatGPT on students learning performance

  by softwaredoug on 5/11/25, 2:05 PM, with 0 comments

• Building a vector database from scratch [video]

  by softwaredoug on 5/8/25, 2:46 PM, with 0 comments

• Best Books on Search

  by softwaredoug on 5/8/25, 2:35 PM, with 0 comments

• Bridging the gap between keyword and semantic search with SPLADE (2024)

  by softwaredoug on 5/5/25, 7:13 PM, with 2 comments

• On the road to building your own vector DB - some basics

  by softwaredoug on 5/5/25, 1:33 PM, with 0 comments

• SPFresh: Incremental In-Place Update for Billion-Scale Vector Search

  by softwaredoug on 5/4/25, 12:30 PM, with 0 comments

• Linguistics Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Language Models

  by softwaredoug on 5/2/25, 4:40 PM, with 1 comments

• Understanding Information Architecture

  by softwaredoug on 5/1/25, 3:03 PM, with 1 comments

• Two tower models instead of 'hybrid search'

  by softwaredoug on 4/29/25, 4:10 PM, with 0 comments

• Stop Overbuilding Evals

  by softwaredoug on 4/26/25, 1:09 PM, with 0 comments

• Lucene University

  by softwaredoug on 4/23/25, 8:37 PM, with 1 comments

• Roaming RAG – RAG without the vector DB

  by softwaredoug on 4/23/25, 8:15 PM, with 0 comments

• LambdaMART in Depth (2022)

  by softwaredoug on 4/23/25, 4:13 PM, with 0 comments

• Hybrid Search Is Just the Beginning: Optimizing the R in RAG [video]

  by softwaredoug on 4/18/25, 12:59 PM, with 0 comments

• Filtered HNSW search, fast mode

  by softwaredoug on 4/15/25, 5:16 PM, with 0 comments

• Show HN: SearchArray – Full text search that feels like a NumPy array

  by softwaredoug on 4/15/25, 2:20 PM, with 0 comments