Doug Turnbull
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Doug Turnbull's personal blog and essays
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Cheating at search with jev
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22 Sep 2026
Kicking teh tires of jev for a very basic query understanding task
Pointers for your search career in 2026
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17 Sep 2026
What you should be thinking of as you consider search + retrieval roles
Three mistakes of new AI teams
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29 Aug 2026
My biased search expert perspective on where new AI teams run into expensive and unfortunate mistakes
Updating a vector database is no simple thing
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18 Aug 2026
For vector search buyers, pay attention to how graphs get updated.
Don't classify. Hallucinate!
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10 Aug 2026
A useful pattern for LLM classification at scale is to let it hallucinate plausible, fake entities. Then resolve to real ones.
Vectors Week: become a savier vector db customer
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29 Jul 2026
A week of wector wevents - vector retrieval, hybrid search, combining the dense and lexical.
Just brute force your embeddings
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29 Jul 2026
Sure its not fancy, but you might save operational headaches by just brute-forcing vector search for a small enough corpus
Principal Component Analysis: an embedding shrink-ray
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24 Jul 2026
Let's walk through basics of using PCA to reduce dimensionality of embeddings