Post #3287716
2026-06-04 10:56 UTC
@marginalia@mastodon.social @drwho@masto.hackers.town @reykjalin@social.treehouse.systems @b0rk@social.jvns.ca I think that's the technique that I remember not being able to handle searches where the order of words in the sentence matters. If I search for "convert git to mercurial" I don't want instructions for the opposite procedure.
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@marginalia@mastodon.social 2026-06-04 10:58
@zwol@masto.hackers.town @drwho@masto.hackers.town @reykjalin@social.treehouse.systems @b0rk@social.jvns.ca It's a neat way of expressing a query mathematically, but it's not actually very good or useful. Though it's an interesting historical footnote, as it did kind of predict vector search 40 years before the fact.