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Embeddings are underrated (2024)

(technicalwriting.dev)
484 points jxmorris12 | 4 comments | 12 May 25 15:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.756s | source
1. charcircuit ◴[12 May 25 16:41 UTC] No.43964963[source]▶
How are they underrated when they have been been used by the top sites for over a decade? The author doesn't really explain why he thinks they are underrated despite them being behind almost every search and recommendation users receive on their computers.
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2. minimaxir ◴[12 May 25 17:10 UTC] No.43965261[source]▶
Underrated is more a relative term, and embeddings are definitely underrated to all the other uses for the LLM boom.
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3. esafak ◴[12 May 25 19:13 UTC] No.43966542[source]▶
The author is addressing technical writers, not engineers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43964290

4. charcircuit ◴[12 May 25 20:44 UTC] No.43967273[source]▶
Embeddings were popularized preLLM. They didn't come from the LLM boom.