016 - What Is a Vector Database?
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What is a vector database, and how does a system find the right document when it shares none of your words? This episode explains how text becomes coordinates, why searching by meaning is really searching by distance, the speed trade that makes it practical at scale, and the trap of a search that always returns something. Voice narration is AI-generated.
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