habitat-sim VS bootcamp

Spot on! I think you grasped the general idea. During some of my 3d studies, I collected data about hand movements, eye movements and navigation paths within scenes, which could potentially be used for training data in robots (e.g. to train robot arm-suction grip, visual input and navigation respectively). I see projects like this https://aihabitat.org/, where my research seems quite relevant.

I need an easy to set up simulation of a 3d environment and I was wondering what you guys are using. Something like https://aihabitat.org/ . It already comes with rich visuals, which is quite important in my case and it works out of the box so I don't need to waste time developing my own models and graphics. Unfortunately habitat ai doesn't work on windows. Are there some alternatives?

There are plenty of them out there. I spend a lot of time contributing to open source projects like Habitat-Sim https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim and Habitat-Lab https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-lab which have a ton of open issues and code maintaince stuff that we would welcome contributions of.

With some hacks it is pretty easy to get drones working in Habitat-Sim: https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim

Metadata Filtering with Zilliz Cloud Pipelines This tutorial discuss scalar or metadata filtering and how you can perform metadata filtering in Zilliz Cloud. This blog continues on the previous blog on Getting started with RAG in just 5 minutes. You can find its code in this notebook and scroll down to Cell #27.

Partially agree.

Vector DBs are critical components in retrieval systems. What most applications need are retrieval systems, rather than building blocks of retrieval systems. That doesn't mean the building blocks are not important.

As someone working on vector DB, I find many users struggling in building their own retrieval systems with building blocks such as embedding service (openai,cohere), logic orchestration framework (langchain/llamaindex) and vector databases, some even with reranker models. Putting them together is not as easy as it looks. A fairly changeling system work. Letting alone quality tuning and devops.

The struggle is no surprise to me, as tech companies who are experts on this (google,meta) all have dedicated teams working on retrieval system alone, making tons of optimizations and develop a whole feedback loop of evaluating and improving the quality. Most developers don't get access to such resource.

No one size fits all. I think there shall exist a service that democratize AI-powered retrieval, in simple words the know-how of using embedding+vectordb and a bunch of tricks to achieve SOTA retrieval quality.

With this idea I built a Retrieval-as-a-service solution, and here is its demo:

https://github.com/milvus-io/bootcamp/blob/master/bootcamp/R...

Curious to learn your thoughts.

Although it's common to use vector databases in conjunction with LLMs, I like to talk about vector databases in the context of unstructured data, i.e. any data that you can vectorize with (or without) an ML model. Yes, this includes text, but it also includes things like visual data, molecular structures, and geospatial data.

For folks who want to learn a bit more, there are examples of vector database use cases beyond semantic text search in our bootcamp: https://github.com/milvus-io/bootcamp

Easy to get started: Here are some tutorials for Milvus in a Jupyter Notebook that I wrote - reverse image search, semantic text search

I think you can just store your vector embeddings in the vector store somewhere and then query with your second document. I created a short tutorial on this that shows how to get the top 2 vector embeddings from a text query

For more beginner tasks associated with the Milvus vector database, you can contribute to the Bootcamp project( https://github.com/milvus-io/bootcamp), where we build a lot of data-driven solutions using ML and Milvus vector database, including reverse image search, recommender systems, etc.

Source code here: https://github.com/milvus-io/bootcamp/tree/master/solutions/reverse_image_search