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brigadier132 on Sept 5, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Do we think about vector storage wrong?

Your math is wrong. 100k 32 bit vectors is 600mb

I think your point is right though. Searching through these is requires an index of some sort at any reasonable scale (not google scale).

osigurdson on Sept 5, 2023 [–]

Hmmm, yeah, I used 2^30 instead of 2^40. Should not comment before caffeinating.

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