#Intelligent Applications

[jcmarchi]

The Sequence Opinion #537: The Rise and Fall of Vector Databases in the AI Era

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The Sequence Opinion #537: The Rise and Fall of Vector Databases in the AI Era

Once regarded as a super hot category, now its becoming increasingly commoditized.

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Hello readers, today we are going to discuss a really controversial thesis: how vector DBs become one of the most hyped trends in AI just to fall out of favor in a few months.

In this new gen AI era, few technologies have experienced a surge in interest and scrutiny quite like vector databases. Designed to store and retrieve high-dimensional vector embeddings—numerical representations of text, images, and other unstructured data—vector databases promised to underpin the next generation of intelligent applications. Their relevance soared following the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, when developers scrambled to build AI-native systems powered by retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and semantic search.

This essay examines the meteoric rise and subsequent repositioning of vector databases. We delve into the emergence of open-source and commercial offerings, their technical strengths and limitations, and the influence of traditional database vendors entering the space. Finally, we contrast the trajectory of vector databases with the lasting success of the NoSQL movement to better understand why vector databases, despite their value, struggled to sustain their standalone identity.

The Emergence of Vector Databases

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[lackadaisical-refrigerator]

Dystopian button my friend saw during a job application

[nando161mando]

Nobody wants to work anymore

[paingoes]

Tag Game: Whumpee Writes a List of Needs

Inspired by this post! Make a post with a list of things your character needs their Caretaker to do (or not do, in terms of triggers to avoid) for them during their recovery - things that it would be difficult for them to say out loud. Could be in-character or just author's description of what they need.

yippeeee thank you for tag @thewhumpcaretaker i love it

uhhh who would be good at this tag game..... @secretwhumplair @lethologick @rainbowsandwhumperflies @horrible-on-main @doumidas-whumps @baphomimi ??? no pressure

honestly open tag for whoever wants to do it and i really encourage you to do it because this is a v cute exercise

loosely in-character lists for both boys below :D

they both have multiple caretakers so not addressed to any particular person and its set roughly within Vol.II time period

Delta

i like being given a choice but sometimes its too much and i trust you to make decisions for me when i cant. not major life ones but its okay for small things

no yelling ever please

please don’t make me talk or tell me to shut up both are really triggering

you can tell me if im being weird. its less humiliating to be corrected at the time than it is to find out later. i wont know otherwise.

i can’t help the verbal tics and its not anything you did wrong most of the time my head is just fucked

please let me stay around even if i am quiet i still want to be near you

please just tell me if you are unhappy with me it makes me nervous when i cant tell

praise is good and i want to be good and i want you to be proud of me

telling me how much you hate my abusers just makes me feel wrong and broken for not feeling that way. i know you mean well but its alienating and makes me feel like a bad person.

im okay about touch. i like being touched. you don’t have to protect me when it comes to that. i know what i’m doing.

please stop me if ive been awake longer than 48 hours or at the computer longer than 12. 

crying or not crying does not really indicate anything anymore. it happens for no reason or it doesn’t happen when i need it to. it’s better to just ask and to believe me.

be patient and gentle during the lapses. you already do that please keep doing it because it means more to me than you know

Paris

warn me before you touch me because my nervous system is all fucked up and still launches into fight apropos of nothing and i don’t want to hurt you

you can tell me to fuck off if im being too aggressive and you can tell me if i need to leave. its okay if you leave too i will try to panic less about it but id rather that happen than keep arguing and say shit i cant take back.

its okay if youre mad at me but can you just reassure me that you are not going to leave forever because of it. or if the time does come when you are going to leave forever will you tell me that too

no drugging ever not even for my own good. i know if its an emergency i wont have a choice but i dont want it.

no matter what is happening to me do not call the cops

also can you give me a heads-up before i have to interact w any of the rebels because it takes me a while to psyche myself up

i can’t always come out of the dissociative episodes but i appreciate you maintaining presence anyway and id be worse off if you didn’t do that. just because im unresponsive doesnt mean i dont want you there. i like hearing you talk.

you can confiscate my phone and sharp objects if im manic but let me keep the cigarettes. you can take the lighter though.

dont talk to me like i’m stupid

dont take pics or videos without asking it makes me paranoid

you can ask me to do things for you no matter what state i am in. i want to help you and to repay you in some way and its good for me to not feel entirely useless. i will do it.

[sandersontheside]

I can’t stop thinking about Remus representing jealousy and envy, in the same way Roman isn’t just creativity, he’s also ego, pride, and passion. It always felt a little lopsided to me that they were halves a whole, and yet Roman has all this extra stuff. But what if Remus has some extra stuff of his own, things that mirror Roman’s extra stuff. 

Consider the feeling you get when you work very hard on something creative, something you’re proud of, only for your work to be passed over for someone else. Consider the envy you might feel when someone else succeeds in the same area you wish you could. Even when it’s a friend, someone you care about, that feeling creeps up sometimes. Don’t you deserve the recognition just as much as they do, if not more? Or maybe, they made something better than you, and you wish it was yours. Either way, that’s envy. Wanting something someone else has. 

Alternatively, consider jealousy, in a romantic sense. The moments when your partner seems to click with someone else, or someone flirts with them, or they’re just plain spending more time with other people than you. It happens, it’s normal. But you can’t help that niggling sense of jealousy in the back of your mind, fueled by insecurity and fear of losing the one you love, that some might take what’s yours away from you. Maybe you imagine in great detail what they’re doing right now, or any number of scenarios in which they leave you or cheat on you. You know you’re being irrational, but even so it’s hard to put those thoughts to rest. 

In both cases, these aren’t wanted feelings, but they’re there anyway, a lot like intrusive thoughts (and in fact in some situations they can be a form of intrusive thought!), and they’re also both extensions of things that Roman represents. Envy and jealousy are both forms of desire tempered with ego and insecurity.

So, where Roman is pride in your work, and desire and passion for your partner, and Remus is wondering why someone else got rewarded for their work and you didn't, and the fear someone will take away the one you love.

In other words, Remus makes you green with envy.

[starrylynxcoins]

SCP Foundation Artificial Intelligence Applications Division (AIAD)

This is a general ID flag for the AIAD from the SCP Foundation!

Primarily for those who consider themselves to be a member of the AIAD, but can be used as a gender or anything else if you want.

[still-breathing-au-p3r]

Minato has a bad habit.

…Minato has a number of bad habits, but there’s one in particular that’s relevant to the current predicament and that he really ought to work on, because things like this happen more often than he’d like to admit.

‘Things like this’ meaning that Minato will find himself apparently possessed by the ghost of an anthropologist, which compels him into allowing bad situations to become worse while he passively observes.

Junpei and Ryoji had almost certainly been doing A Bit about the possibility of girls coming out to bathe this late at night, unaware of their group’s presence.

Unfortunately, they had also been tempting fate– with all the manga Junpei reads, he really ought to have known that joking like that made it basically inevitable for a group of girls to actually appear. And to truly maximize the hubris/disaster ratio, of course it would be nothing less than this specific group of girls: one for whom they’re all– with the exception of Ryoji– fully aware of the combat capabilities they possess.

Junpei had started panicking immediately, while Ryoji hadn’t seemed to grasp the severity of the situation right away. Sanada had only been irritated at first, but upon hearing Mitsuru’s voice he’d become as alarmed as Junpei. Aragaki–

Aragaki might be sleeping through the whole crisis, actually. As soon as they had settled into the water he had immediately propped himself up against one of the taller rock formations and tugged his hat over his eyes, and he hasn’t said a word since. Minato had thought he was only pretending to doze off as a pretense to avoid participating in any conversation, but now he isn’t so sure.

And Minato himself, for reasons his own mind has not seen fit to illuminate, continues to sit back and allow the spirit of academic curiosity to say ‘well, let’s see where they’re going with this.’

Junpei and Ryoji look desperately to Sanada for guidance. Sanada lays out the goal of tonight’s operation: make their escape without being seen.

Aragaki suddenly lets out an explosively judgemental sigh.

So apparently he had been faking sleep, after all.

Without uncovering his eyes, he raises one hand above the upper edge of the rocks and waves.

There’s a chorus of surprised exclamations from the girls and a brief rattle that sounds suspiciously like Aigis starting to arm herself on reflex.

Aragaki lowers his hand and kneads at his eyes through the fabric of the hat.

He speaks quietly enough that he probably meant the words for his own ears only, but Minato hears him, and evidently Sanada does as well.

Shoving the hat up from his eyes, Aragaki glares incredulously between Sanada and the direction of Mitsuru’s voice.

[scpaesthetics]

SCP Aesthetics: AIAD Hub (requested by anon, original AIAD series by LurkD)

"Pure logic assists in successful tactical objectives. Something a personality driver is incapable of."

(blue, out with the old, in with the new)

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

I think most Latinos do not give a damn about the race of who their daughter dates. Stop listening to what some extremist racist Latino says on the internet LOL

[lemurballing]

the problem with tangle is she was written as an s tier character out of the gate, so you can’t really give her a character arc. she’s at the peak. you have to make her worse in order to make her better

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[ttaibhse]

having another despair spiral over being unemployed 🙏

[starbuck]

ya know… I may be delusional, but I feel like I actually have a decent shot at my dream internship this summer… Come the new year, I am going to reach out to my contacts in the organization and see if they can put me in touch with the hiring manager so I can introduce myself… And, since they are not a well-known location, I doubt that they have many applicants, which also gives me a better shot… AND I have a few tricks up my sleeve for #ShowingNotTelling how committed I am to working with them specifically… JUST perhaps it could all work out…

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