Episode notes
Topics:
00:00 Intro
01:54 Things Connor learnt in the past year that changed his perception of Vector Search
02:42 Is search becoming conversational?
05:46 Connor asks Dmitry: How Large Language Models will change Search?
08:39 Vector Search Pyramid
09:53 Large models, data, Form vs Meaning and octopus underneath the ocean
13:25 Examples of getting help from ChatGPT and how it compares to web search today
18:32 Classical search engines with URLs for verification vs ChatGPT-style answers
20:15 Hybrid search: keywords + semantic retrieval
23:12 Connor asks Dmitry about his experience with sparse retrieval
28:08 SPLADE vectors
34:10 OOD-DiskANN: handling the out-of-distribution queries, and nuances of sparse vs dense indexing and search
39:54 Ways to debug a query case in ...
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