VSDB: My Experiments with Vectorspaces

Creating VectorspaceDatabase was a great learning experience

Anyone familiar with the LLMs and “retrieval augmented generation” (RAG) probably knows how vectorspace engines are used now as a way to find relevant articles for use in prompts and summaries for AI projects. Here’s some things I learned over the last 15 years.

Document Similarity

Sometime around 2006 or so, I created a simple tool to help me categorize books for a…