Podcast Episodes

Trey Grainger - Wormhole Vectors

Season 4 Episode 2

This lightning session introduces a new idea in vector search - Wormhole vectors!

It has deep roots in physics and allows for transcending spaces of any nature: sparse, vector and behaviour (but could…

Published on 10 hours ago

Economical way of serving vector search workloads with Simon Eskildsen, CEO Turbopuffer

Season 4 Episode 1

Turbopuffer search engine supports such products as Cursor, Notion, Linear, Superhuman and Readwise.

This episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/I8Ztqajighg

Medium: https://dmitry-kan.medium.com/vector-p…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Adding ML layer to Search: Hybrid Search Optimizer with Daniel Wrigley and Eric Pugh

Season 3 Episode 11

Vector Podcast website: https://vectorpodcast.com

Haystack US 2025: https://haystackconf.com/2025/

Federated search, Keyword & Neural Search, ML Optimisation, Pros and Cons of Hybrid search

It is fascin…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Vector Databases: The Rise, Fall and Future - by NotebookLM

Season 3 Episode 10

https://www.vectorpodcast.com/

I had fun interacting with NotebookLM - mostly for self-educational purposes. I think this tool can help by bringing an additional perspective over a textual content. It…

Published on 8 months ago

Code search, Copilot, LLM prompting with empathy and Artifacts with John Berryman

Season 3 Episode 9

Vector Podcast website: https://vectorpodcast.com

Get your copy of John's new book "Prompt Engineering for LLMs: The Art and Science of Building Large Language Model–Based Applications": https://amzn.…

Published on 8 months, 4 weeks ago

Debunking myths of vector search and LLMs with Leo Boytsov

Season 3 Episode 8

00:00 Intro

01:31 Leo's story

09:59 SPLADE: single model to solve both dense and sparse?

21:06 DeepImpact

29:58 NMSLIB: what are non-metric spaces

34:21 How HNSW and NMSLIB joined forces

41:11 Why FAISS di…

Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago

Berlin Buzzwords 2024 - Alessandro Benedetti - LLMs in Solr

Season 3 Episode 7

Alessandro's talk on Hybrid Search with Apache Solr Reciprocal Rank Fusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x2cbT5CCEM&list=PLq-odUc2x7i8jHpa6PHGzmxfAPEz-c-on&index=5

00:00 Intro

00:50 Alessandro's ta…

Published on 1 year ago

Berlin Buzzwords 2024 - Sonam Pankaj - EmbedAnything

Season 3 Episode 6

Video: https://youtu.be/dVIPBxHJ1kQ

00:00 Intro

00:15 Greets for Sonam

01:02 Importance of metric learning

3:37 Sonam's background: Rasa, Qdrant

4:31 What's EmbedAnything

5:52 What a user gets

8:48 Do I nee…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Berlin Buzzwords 2024 - Doug Turnbull - Learning in Public

Season 3 Episode 5

00:00 Intro

00:30 Greets for Doug

01:46 Apache Solr and stuff

03:08 Hello LTR project

04:42 Secret sauce of Doug's continuous blogging

08:50 SearchArray

13:22 Running complex ML experiments

17:29 Efficient …

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

Eric Pugh - Measuring Search Quality with Quepid

Season 3 Episode 4

00:00 Intro

00:21 Guest Introduction: Eric Pugh

03:00 Eric's story in search and the evolution of search technology

7:27 Quepid: Improving Search Relevancy

10:08 When to use Quepid

14:53 Flash back to Apa…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago