Vectors, Embeddings, and Search: An Intuition-First Guide
https://nicolas.nz/blog/vectors-embeddings-and-search Vectors, embeddings, and search When we talk about AI, search, or LLMs, it often sounds like magic. You type words. Something understands them. It finds meaning, not just keywords. But under the hood, there’s no magic. There are vectors. Lots of them. Not symbols, not rules, not hidden dictionaries. Just numbers arranged in space. When I built my previous blog, I used vectors to power article recommendations (surfacing related content based on what you’d just read). I never really went […]