Re:Show HN: I replaced vector databases with Git for AI memo...
by meander_water on Thursday August 21, 2025 @05:10AM
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You could use BM25S [0] instead of rank-bm25 for a nice speedup.
Also, there are tradeoffs associated with using BM25 instead of embedding similarity. You're essentially trading semantic understanding for computational speed and keyword matching.
Also, there are tradeoffs associated with using BM25 instead of embedding similarity. You're essentially trading semantic understanding for computational speed and keyword matching.
[0] https://github.com/xhluca/bm25s