Phil Booth takes a look at vector search systems:
Recently I built a system that uses vector search to logically truncate long documents and retain the most significant parts according to some search term. I’m a dummy, with no background in machine learning or mathematics, so there were new concepts for me to understand and implementation details to figure out. This post summarises what I learned.
Vector search and vector databases are becoming a fairly hot topic, so this at least grounds you on what they are.