charliejuggler

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   by charliejuggler 2y ago

   We've been building some systems for clients recently including Moody's using Lucene-based engines for the R-part - the G part tends to be OpenAI or some such service but there's also appetite for internally hosted LLMs. The
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   by charliejuggler 3y ago

   You could try the method we used for our vector search demo for e-commerce (all open source, natch) - use CLIP to get vector embeddings for product pictures and then use these for boosting or matching. https://opensourceconnectio
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   by charliejuggler 3y ago

   You might like the 'Which Search Engine?' panel I ran at Buzzwords earlier this year with some of the leading contenders (Vespa, Qdrant, Elastic, Solr, Weaviate) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI40L4wMtyI - vect
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   by charliejuggler 4y ago

   My colleague Nate wrote about using Jaccard for search engine regression testing: https://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2021/07/23/jaccard-in... If you make changes to a search algorithm and the order o
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   by charliejuggler 4y ago

   People have been predicting the death of keyword search for at least as long as I've been working in the field (23 years and counting!). We've seen outrageous marketing claims, buzzwords like "concept search", "insi
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   by charliejuggler 5y ago

   If you're interested in the detail behind this check out Simon Hughes' talk at our Haystack search relevance conference last year https://haystackconf.com/2021/ - the video is here https://www.yout