Thank you for that, I don't know anything about vector databases so this was useful. I'm not sure if it's normal but the math formulas aren't rendered, they look like what I assume is latex text? But the diagrams are great to get an intuition.
Uh oh, our LaTeX rendering is broken. Thanks for pointing that out! I’ll look into it.
It's broken on Chrome and Firefox, latest versions, on Linux if that might help.
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by thirdtrigger on Sunday October 03, 2021 @12:40PM
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This is also a great start (video) to learn about vector databases / vector search engines https://youtu.be/YkK5IKgxp-c
TL;DR - They store vector embeddings and index them for efficient nearest-neighbor retrieval. Some also allow CRUD operations, metadata filtering, fault-tolerance, and all that jazz. Useful for things like semantic search, similarity search (of unstructured data), and recommender systems.