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throwaway81523yesterday at 10:54 PM2 repliesview on HN

Gad, they sure like to say "BM25" over and over again. That's a near worthless approach to result ranking. Doing any halfway ok job requires much more tuned and/or more powerful approaches.


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throwaway7783yesterday at 11:27 PM

Can you please elaborate why?

cpursleyyesterday at 11:48 PM

It's common to do a hybrid of BM25 with other fuzzy search or pgvector.

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