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by jwithington 703 days ago
So one could retain the contents of every website every visited and then run local, in-browser searches against that content? Is that the idea? This library would serve as the vector DB?
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Imagine this. You stumbled across this insane search technique, which knows what you want. It doesn't care if you know the exact keywords or not, it just gets what you're after. We call it Vector Search / Semantic Search. Cool stuff right? You don't have to be a keyword wizard to get your stuff. But there's a problem.

Unlike it's keyword search counterpart it expensive. Order of magnitude expensive. All because you need to maintain a vector search index and keep it available server side.

Enter Tinkerbird. This little library takes the heavy lifting and pushes it client side. Stream your embeddings, front it via CDN or cache it on client. Now you get benefits of vector index without the costs of maintaining one.