Notes

Short notebook entries

Quick thoughts, condensed explanations, quotes, diagrams, and in-progress technical reasoning.

SOAR

Using AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, I became interested in the underlying algorithm, based on ScaNN and recently extended with SOAR. During indexing, a structure is built to organize vectors in space, so that search is perform…

April 24, 2026

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On using LLMs: I find them fascinating and useful in many contexts, but I don't use them to write in my place. Writing here is an exercise in understanding what I think and the limits of my own reasoning. It's more demanding, imperfect, honest, and real.