Podcast Episodes

Sid Probstein, part II - Bring AI to company data with SWIRL

Season 3 Episode 3

00:00 Intro

01:54 Reflection on the past year in AI

08:08 Reader LLM (and RAG)

12:36 Does it need fine-tuning to a domain?

14:20 How LLMs can lie

17:32 What if data isn't perfect

21:21 SWIRL's secret sauce…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Louis Brandy - SQL meets Vector Search at Rockset

Season 3 Episode 2

00:00 Intro

00:42 Louis's background

05:39 From Facebook to Rockset

07:41 Embeddings prior to deep learning / LLM era

12:35 What's Rockset as a product

15:27 Use cases

18:04 RocksDB as part of Rockset

20:33…

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

Saurabh Rai - Growing Resume Matcher

Season 3 Episode 1

Topics:

00:00 Intro - how do you like our new design?

00:52 Greets

01:55 Saurabh's background

03:04 Resume Matcher: 4.5K stars, 800 community members, 1.5K forks

04:11 How did you grow the project?

05:42 T…

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

Sid Probstein - Creator of SWIRL - Search in siloed data with LLMs

Season 2 Episode 7

Topics:

00:00 Intro

00:22 Quick demo of SWIRL on the summary transcript of this episode

01:29 Sid’s background

08:50 Enterprise vs Federated search

17:48 How vector search covers for missing folksonomy in…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Atita Arora - Search Relevance Consultant - Revolutionizing E-commerce with Vector Search

Season 2 Episode 6

Topics:

00:00 Intro

02:20 Atita’s path into search engineering

09:00 When it’s time to contribute to open source

12:08 Taking management role vs software development

14:36 Knowing what you like (and comin…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

Connor Shorten - Research Scientist, Weaviate - ChatGPT, LLMs, Form vs Meaning

Season 2 Episode 5

Topics:

00:00 Intro

01:54 Things Connor learnt in the past year that changed his perception of Vector Search

02:42 Is search becoming conversational?

05:46 Connor asks Dmitry: How Large Language Models w…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

Evgeniya Sukhodolskaya - Data Advocate, Toloka - Data at the core of all the cool ML

Season 2 Episode 4

Toloka’s support for Academia: grants and educator partnerships

https://toloka.ai/collaboration-with-educators-form

https://toloka.ai/research-grants-form

These are pages leading to them:

https://toloka.…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

Yaniv Vaknin - Director of Product, Searchium - Hardware accelerated vector search

Season 2 Episode 3

00:00 Introduction

01:11 Yaniv’s background and intro to Searchium & GSI

04:12 Ways to consume the APU acceleration for vector search

05:39 Power consumption dimension in vector search

7:40 Place of the…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

Doug Turnbull - Staff Relevance Engineer, Shopify - Search as a constant experimentation cycle

Season 2 Episode 2

Topics:

00:00 Intro

01:30 Doug’s story in Search

04:55 How Quepid came about

10:57 Relevance as product at Shopify: challenge, process, tools, evaluation

15:36 Search abandonment in Ecommerce

21:30 Rigor i…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

Malte Pietsch - CTO, Deepset - Passion in NLP and bridging the academia-industry gap with Haystack

Season 2 Episode 1

Topics:

00:00 Introduction

01:12 Malte’s background

07:58 NLP crossing paths with Search

11:20 Product discovery: early stage repetitive use cases pre-dating Haystack

16:25 Acyclic directed graph for mode…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago