Vector Podcast

Dmitry Kan

English Education Science Self-Improvement

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Episodes 34

Avg. Duration 1h 6m

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Apple Rating ★ 5.0 (2)

Since Dec 2021

Latest Episode Apr 2026

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About This Podcast

Vector Podcast is here to bring you the depth and breadth of Search Engine Technology, Product, Marketing, Business. In the podcast we talk with engineers, entrepreneurs, thinkers and tinkerers, who put their soul into search. Depending on your interest, you should find a matching topic for you -- whether it is deep algorithmic aspect of search engines and information retrieval field, or examples of products offering deep tech to its users. "Vector" -- because it aims to cover an emerging field of vector similarity search, giving you the ability to search content beyond text: audio, video, images and more. "Vector" also because it is all about vector in your profession, product, marketing and business.

Podcast website: https://www.vectorpodcast.com/

Dmitry is blogging on https://dmitry-kan.medium.com/

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Recent Episodes

S4E3 AI Webinar - Building an AI-Ready Data Backbone

Apr 10, 2026 1h 18m

Webinar I gave with AI Camp and Aiven on AI-ready data backbone, and specifically how OpenSearch unlocks AI-powered search and log analytics: https://www.aicamp.ai/event/eventdetails/W2026032610Blog…

S4E2 Trey Grainger - Wormhole Vectors

Nov 07, 2025 1h 19m

This lightning session introduces a new idea in vector search - Wormhole vectors!It has deep roots in physics and allows for transcending spaces of any nature: sparse, vector and behaviour (but could…

S4E1 Economical way of serving vector search workloads with Simon Eskildsen, CEO Turbopuffer

Sep 19, 2025 1h 15m

Turbopuffer search engine supports such products as Cursor, Notion, Linear, Superhuman and Readwise.Craft decaf & half caf coffee, 25% discount: https://savorista.com/discount/VECTORThis episode…

S3E11 Adding ML layer to Search: Hybrid Search Optimizer with Daniel Wrigley and Eric Pugh

Mar 21, 2025 1h 3m

Vector Podcast website: https://vectorpodcast.comHaystack US 2025: https://haystackconf.com/2025/Federated search, Keyword & Neural Search, ML Optimisation, Pros and Cons of Hybrid searchIt is…

S3E10 Vector Databases: The Rise, Fall and Future - by NotebookLM

Mar 02, 2025 19m

https://www.vectorpodcast.com/I had fun interacting with NotebookLM - mostly for self-educational purposes. I think this tool can help by bringing an additional perspective over a textual content. It…

S3E9 Code search, Copilot, LLM prompting with empathy and Artifacts with John Berryman

Feb 10, 2025 1h 7m

Vector Podcast website: https://vectorpodcast.comGet your copy of John's new book "Prompt Engineering for LLMs: The Art and Science of Building Large Language Model–Based Applications":…

S3E8 Debunking myths of vector search and LLMs with Leo Boytsov

Jan 17, 2025 1h 7m

00:00 Intro01:31 Leo's story09:59 SPLADE: single model to solve both dense and sparse?21:06 DeepImpact29:58 NMSLIB: what are non-metric spaces34:21 How HNSW and NMSLIB joined forces41:11 Why FAISS…

S3E7 Berlin Buzzwords 2024 - Alessandro Benedetti - LLMs in Solr

Nov 07, 2024 38m

This episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNB70TbQUBEAlessandro's talk on Hybrid Search with Apache Solr Reciprocal Rank Fusion:…

S3E6 Berlin Buzzwords 2024 - Sonam Pankaj - EmbedAnything

Sep 19, 2024 23m

This episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dVIPBxHJ1kQ00:00 Intro00:15 Greets for Sonam01:02 Importance of metric learning3:37 Sonam's background: Rasa, Qdrant4:31 What's EmbedAnything5:52 What a user…

S3E5 Berlin Buzzwords 2024 - Doug Turnbull - Learning in Public

Jul 18, 2024 27m

This episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIPC_xzqJ0o00:00 Intro00:30 Greets for Doug01:46 Apache Solr and stuff03:08 Hello LTR project04:42 Secret sauce of Doug's continuous…

S3E4 Eric Pugh - Measuring Search Quality with Quepid

Jun 26, 2024 47m

This episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L7UjjPz5wM00:00 Intro00:21 Guest Introduction: Eric Pugh03:00 Eric's story in search and the evolution of search technology7:27 Quepid:…

S3E3 Sid Probstein, part II - Bring AI to company data with SWIRL

May 15, 2024 38m

This episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fafSkzKpfw00:00 Intro01:54 Reflection on the past year in AI08:08 Reader LLM (and RAG)12:36 Does it need fine-tuning to a domain?14:20 How…

S3E2 Louis Brandy - SQL meets Vector Search at Rockset

May 01, 2024 52m

This episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiwqVlDpsl800:00 Intro00:42 Louis's background05:39 From Facebook to Rockset07:41 Embeddings prior to deep learning / LLM era12:35 What's…

S3E1 Saurabh Rai - Growing Resume Matcher

Apr 12, 2024 26m

This episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx6BH9Z_gBATopics:00:00 Intro - how do you like our new design?00:52 Greets01:55 Saurabh's background03:04 Resume Matcher: 4.5K stars, 800…

S2E7 Sid Probstein - Creator of SWIRL - Search in siloed data with LLMs

Jul 22, 2023 1h 32m

Topics:00:00 Intro00:22 Quick demo of SWIRL on the summary transcript of this episode01:29 Sid’s background08:50 Enterprise vs Federated search17:48 How vector search covers for missing folksonomy in…

S2E6 Atita Arora - Search Relevance Consultant - Revolutionizing E-commerce with Vector Search

May 17, 2023 1h 32m

Topics:00:00 Intro02:20 Atita’s path into search engineering09:00 When it’s time to contribute to open source12:08 Taking management role vs software development14:36 Knowing what you like (and…

S2E5 Connor Shorten - Research Scientist, Weaviate - ChatGPT, LLMs, Form vs Meaning

Mar 11, 2023 1h 33m

Topics:00:00 Intro01:54 Things Connor learnt in the past year that changed his perception of Vector Search02:42 Is search becoming conversational?05:46 Connor asks Dmitry: How Large Language Models…

S2E4 Evgeniya Sukhodolskaya - Data Advocate, Toloka - Data at the core of all the cool ML

Jan 28, 2023 1h 26m

Toloka’s support for Academia: grants and educator partnershipshttps://toloka.ai/collaboration-with-educators-formhttps://toloka.ai/research-grants-formThese are pages leading to…

S2E3 Yaniv Vaknin - Director of Product, Searchium - Hardware accelerated vector search

Dec 21, 2022 1h 13m

00:00 Introduction01:11 Yaniv’s background and intro to Searchium & GSI04:12 Ways to consume the APU acceleration for vector search05:39 Power consumption dimension in vector search 7:40 Place of…

S2E2 Doug Turnbull - Staff Relevance Engineer, Shopify - Search as a constant experimentation cycle

Oct 01, 2022 1h 33m

This episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpua1Euc-B8Topics:00:00 Intro01:30 Doug’s story in Search04:55 How Quepid came about10:57 Relevance as product at Shopify: challenge, process,…

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How many episodes does Vector Podcast have?

Vector Podcast has published 34 episodes since December 2021, covering topics in Education, Science.

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Vector Podcast is currently highly active with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 1h 6m.