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177: Vector Databases

Programming Throwdown by Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

Nov 4, 202488:26Technology

Patrick and Jason explain vector databases by starting with embeddings, similarity metrics, and approximate nearest-neighbor search. They discuss how these systems store and query high-dimensional vectors and where tools...

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