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2026-06-30
belderbos.dev
artificial-intelligence

Ask the Canon: Semantic Search Without a Vector Database

Developer built Ask the Canon, a semantic search engine over 100 public-domain books, using Hugging Face and NumPy without a vector database or external AI APIs. The system loads 79,292 passages as a …

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