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Mining for Meaning, Part 1: Embeddings and Semantic Similarity
Modern search engines do not merely look for keyword matches — they apply similarity search to ensure that you get relevant results.
Mining for Meaning, Part 2: Database Indexing
In the previous post, we discussed how to translate a variety of questions on semantic similarity into a single, tractable mathematical problem: which vector is closest to a query vector?