I've been reading a lot about semantic search (kNN, BM25, RRF, etc.) both within Elasticsearch and in isolation). With the advent of LLMs and especially open-weights ones mixed with modern hardware, it's a perfect time to approach them in a pragmatic way. On the blog I'm already using a form of BM25 via SQLite FTS5's ...
Semantic search in Rails using sqlite-vec, Kamal and Docker
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