Module 3 of 11
Embeddings and vector search
- Beginner
- 2 lessons
- 1 h
Chapter 3 · The Lowtide Sleeper
At the first junction the Sorting Depot has no labels, only zones painted on the floor, and parcels are sorted by what they are like. That is a joy when someone wants "something like this" and a shrug when someone wants ticket TK-48213 exactly. You will learn how likeness is measured, then how a depot of forty thousand parcels is searched in under a minute.
What you will be able to do
- Explain embeddings, similarity metrics and approximate nearest-neighbour search.
- Choose a vector store for a given scale.
Lessons
Embeddings and similarity searchCompleted
Read first: Tokenization and embeddings
Vector databasesCompleted
Read first: Embeddings and similarity search
End of chapter 3 · The Lowtide Sleeper
The parcel was found before Latency the cat reached the far wall, which is about as fast as anything gets in this depot.