Spoiler alert: the answer is maybe! Although, my inclusion of the word “actually” betrays my bias. Vector databases are having their day right now. Three different vector DB companies have raised money on valuations up to $700 million (paywall link). Surprisingly, their rise in popularity is not for their “original” purpose in recommendation systems, but rather as an auxillary tool for Large Language Models (LLMs). Many online examples of combining embeddings with LLMs will show you h...| www.ethanrosenthal.com
In my last post, I strongly encouraged monitoring Machine Learning (ML) models with streaming databases. In this post, I will demonstrate an example of how to do this with Materialize. If you would like to skip to the code, I have put everything in this post into AIspy, a repo on GitHub. DTCase Study Let’s assume that we are a machine learning practitioner who works for Down To Clown, a Direct To Consumer (DTC) company that sells clown supplies.| www.ethanrosenthal.com