The tradeoff between human and AI context

Tightsqueeze, Virginia

The whipsawing of Windsurf employees has left a bitter taste in tech

Humans overrely on overconfident language models, across languages

Mercenaries over Missionaries

Start with Who, Not Why (2022)

Senate passes Trump’s megabill after pulling all-nighter

Query Autocomplete from LLMs

How to Do Autocomplete

Against LLM Maximalism

I made a search engine worse than Elasticsearch (2024)

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

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

I accidentally built a vector database using video compression

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

Tail latency might matter more than you think (2021)

The size bias of text embeddings and its impact on search

RAG's Big Blindspot

What is presentation bias in search? (2022)

The effect of ChatGPT on students learning performance

Building a vector database from scratch [video]

Best Books on Search

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

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

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

Linguistics Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Language Models

Understanding Information Architecture

Two tower models instead of 'hybrid search'

Stop Overbuilding Evals

Lucene University

Roaming RAG – RAG without the vector DB

LambdaMART in Depth (2022)

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

Filtered HNSW search, fast mode

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

Native filtering for high-recall vector search

Visual Reasoning Is Coming Soon

An LLM Query Understanding Service