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Re:Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG by mejutoco on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @02:11PM (#50457213)
Grep is not semantic like embeddings, although the llm can expand a concept into multiple literal searches with a similar effect.
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Re:Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG by elpakal on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @02:16PM (#50457285)
Your understanding was applied too strictly and you missed the intent of the joke...
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Re:Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG by esafak on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:35AM (#50463443)
What's the joke?
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Re:Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG by 0o777 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @02:37PM (#50457507)
There have been some attempts at "semantic grep" but don't know its current status

https://github.com/lightonai/next-plaid/tree/main/colgrep

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Re:Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG by Foobar8568 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:54AM (#50464697)
Considering the exemple they have provided, it seems they used grep...
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