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Re:Do you need a vector database? by thanatropism on Thursday April 13, 2023 @01:35PM (#35559112)
Modern text embeddings are not word-based like that.
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Re:Do you need a vector database? by Sai_ on Friday April 14, 2023 @02:32AM (#35566207)
If my understanding and explanation are directionally correct, I’m happy. I’ll be the first one to admit I’m not a data scientist.

Do you have a good example of how an actual data scientist would present the idea of vectors as applied to sentences/documents to a layperson?

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