Panda Smith

From grep to SPLADE: a journey through semantic search

Almost every app needs search. If you’ve attempted to implement it in your app, you may have discovered that what seems simple on the surface is a deeply challenging technical problem that has kept the brightest minds in computer science busy for decades. In recent years, machine learning has

Build a search engine, not a vector DB

In the last 12 months there has been a proliferation of vector DB startups. I’m not here to debate the specific design tradeoffs of any of them. Instead, I want to push back on several common approaches to what a vector database is, what it’s for, and how