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Inspiration for embedding based mechanics for games and apps
(bawolf.substack.com)
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I've been using Destucture [1] for a few years. It's an interesting compromise that works for atom and string keys because it's explicit, kind of like the sigil approach. Though this seems way more streamlined, especially as
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Hybrid searches are great, though I'm not sure they would help here. Neither 'crown' nor 'ruler' would come back from a text search for 'king,' right? I bet if we put a better description into the embeddin
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You'd have to update the embedding every time the data used to generate it changes. For example, if you had an embedding for user profiles and they updated their bio, you would want to make a new embedding. I don't expect to have
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I love it!
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bryantwolf
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Yeah, these can be cute, but they're not ideal. I think the user feedback mechanism could help naturally align this over time, but it would also be gameable. It's all interesting stuff
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As an individual, I love the idea of pushing to simplify even further to understand these core concepts. For the ecosystem, I like that vector stores make these features accessible to environments outside of Python.
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This is a good call out. OpenAI embeddings were simple to stand up, pretty good, cheap at this scale, and accessible to everyone. I think that makes them a good starting point for many people. That said, they're closed-source, and ther
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Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer
(bawolf.substack.com)
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