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Tuesday: Neural search without query-time inference

Published about 1 month ago • 1 min read

Friday we had a search career Q&A with Brian Pedersen. Recap notes can be found here.

Then, we're continuing on with Retrieval Augmented Gathering on Tuesday! What's on deck:

  • Tuesday: Neural search without query-time latency - can we do SPLADE without spinning up a query time inference service w/ GPUs etc by just precomputing at index-time? Kumar Shivendu of QDrant will help us find out
  • Wednesday: Vespa's killer feature: tensors in the search engine. What are tensors? Why does that matter? What unique power does that give Vespa? Radu Gheorge from Vespa will educate us
  • Friday: Your agent traces are a corpus! If you've ever been annoyed not being able to let your agent search past instances - so everything acts like one session. Adam Hevenor will show us how :)

Join us

The easiest way to sign up is on the series page. That will get you all the calendar invites:

​https://maven.com/lls/f27953

-Doug

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