Querying Data with Natural Language

Querying Data with Natural Language

Author: Vickraman Thekkan Ravi

The blog explains how natural language interfaces allow users to retrieve insights from data without needing technical query languages. It discusses techniques for mapping human phrasing to structured queries, explores challenges like ambiguity and context, and reviews tools that translate questions into SQL or API calls to make data access intuitive.

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Why everything we know about vector search is wrong

Search vector

Author: Arun Kumar

During February, Someone contacted me on Linkedin and asked for some consultation in their RAG pipeline. Their fancy new ColBERT search system—the one that crushed benchmarks in testing—was melting their servers. Query latency jumped from 50ms to 5 seconds. “But the accuracy is so much better!” they kept saying, like a mantra, while customers fled to competitors. I suggested possible solutions and things got resolved in a balanced way.

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