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My Summer Internship Experience at LanceDB

Raunak Sinha
August 15, 2024
I'm Raunak, a master's student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This summer, I had the opportunity to intern as a Software Engineer at LanceDB, an early-stage startup based in San Francisco.
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Zero Shot Image Classification with Vector Search

Vipul Maheshwari
July 12, 2024
Get about zero shot image classification with vector search. Get practical steps, examples, and best practices you can use now.
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Chat with Your Stats Using Langchain Dataframe Agent & LanceDB Hybrid Search

LanceDB
June 30, 2024
In this blog, we’ll explore how to build a chat application that interacts with CSV and Excel files using LanceDB’s hybrid search capabilities.
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Columnar File Readers in Depth: APIs and Fusion

Weston Pace
June 18, 2024
The API used to read files has evolved over time, from simple full table reads to batch reads and eventually to iterative record batch readers. Lance takes this a step further to return a stream of read tasks.
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Developers, Ditch the Black Box: Welcome to Continue

LanceDB
May 23, 2024
Remember flipping through coding manuals? Those quickly became relics with the rise of Google and Stack Overflow, a one-stop shop for developer queries.
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Columnar File Readers in Depth: Parallelism without Row Groups

Weston Pace
May 14, 2024
Explore columnar file readers in depth: column shredding with practical insights and expert guidance from the LanceDB team.
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Benchmarking Cohere Rerankers with LanceDB

LanceDB
May 7, 2024
Improve retrieval quality by reranking LanceDB results with Cohere and ColBERT. You’ll plug rerankers into vector, FTS, and hybrid search and compare accuracy on real datasets.
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Tokens per Second Is NOT All You Need

Mingran Wang
Tan Li
May 1, 2024
Explore about tokens per second is not all you need. Get practical steps, examples, and best practices you can use now.
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Chunking Techniques with Langchain and LlamaIndex

Prashant Kumar
April 20, 2024
In our last blog, we talked about chunking and why it is necessary for processing data through LLMs. We covered some simple techniques to perform text chunking.
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Lance v2: A New Columnar Container Format

Weston Pace
April 13, 2024
Explore lance v2: a new columnar container format with practical insights and expert guidance from the LanceDB team.
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Convert Any Image Dataset to Lance

LanceDB
April 10, 2024
In our article, we explored the remarkable capabilities of the Lance format, a modern, columnar data storage solution designed to revolutionize the way we work with large image datasets in machine learning.
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Effortlessly Loading and Processing Images with Lance: a Code Walkthrough

LanceDB
March 29, 2024
Working with large image datasets in machine learning can be challenging, often requiring significant computational resources and efficient data-handling techniques.
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