Episode description
Alessandro's talk on Hybrid Search with Apache Solr Reciprocal Rank Fusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x2cbT5CCEM&list=PLq-odUc2x7i8jHpa6PHGzmxfAPEz-c-on&index=5
00:00 Intro
00:50 Alessandro's take on the bbuzz'24 conference
01:25 What and value of hybrid search
04:55 Explainability of vector search results to users
09:27 Explainability of vector search results to search engineers
13:12 State of hybrid search in Apache Solr
14:32 What's in Reciprocal Rank Fusion beyond round-robin?
18:30 Open source for LLMs
22:48 How we should approach this issue in business and research
26:12 How to maintain the status of an open-source LLM / system
30:06 Prompt engineering (hope and determinism)
34:03 DSpy
35:16 What's next in Solr