Picture this: You're cozied up with a lovely cup of tea in your favourite ATPGeo mug, ready to dive into the world of Geopolitics. You want to search the archives to track down a topic Jonathan discussed a few months ago. Well, you're in the right place, so let's explore the fascinating world of hybrid search that powers ATPGeo's archive system!
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The Hybrid Brew: Keyword and Neural Search
Imagine hybrid search as the perfect blend of two distinct tea flavours, coming together to create something truly special. ATPGeo's search system is a carefully crafted mix of two approaches:
- Traditional Keyword Search (30%): Think of this as your standard tea bag. It's reliable and gets the job done.
- Neural Search (70%): This is your fancy loose-leaf tea, bringing depth and nuance to the search results.
Single Word vs. Phrase: The Tea Bag Dilemma
Let's consider the difference between searching for a single word versus a phrase, it's rather like the difference between asking for 'tea' versus 'a lovely cup of tea'."
Searching for just "tea" in our video transcripts might get you a mixed bag:
- Videos about tea varieties
- Clips mentioning tea in passing
- Perhaps even content about the letter 'T', golf tees, or t-shirts!
But when you search for "a lovely cup of tea", the system understands you're after something more specific:
- Topics featuring positive tea experiences;
- Perhaps even a topic with Jonathan waxing lyrical about a particularly delightful cuppa;
- Or Jonathan declaring the need for a good c up of tea (post rant!)
The Ingestion Process: Steeping Your Content
Before serving up these delightful search results, the content needs to be prepared - much like steeping tea. Here's how it works for ATPGeo's episode transcripts:
- Topics & Chunks: The system breaks down each transcript into distinct topics and then each topic is split into 75-token chunks. (around 60 words). It's like dividing a long geopolitical analysis into manageable sips of information.
- Overlap: There's a 20% overlap between chunks. This ensures no important context is missed - like making sure you catch every nuance in Jonathan's complex geopolitical brew.
The Model: The Geopolitical Tea Master
For the real magic, ATPGeo uses a special model called msmarco-distilbert-base-tas-b.
Let's call it the 'Geopolitical Tea Master'.
This model is like a highly trained geopolitical analyst who's also a tea connoisseur. It can:
- Understand the nuances of language (or geopolitical tea flavours)
- Quickly identify relevant content (or the perfect geopolitical blend for your query)
- Work efficiently without compromising on quality (like Jonathan brewing the perfect geopolitical analysis in record time)
Visit HuggingFace to read more about vector embedding model used by ATP Distilled
Embeddings: The ATP Geopolitics Tea Room of Language
To understand how the Geopolitical Tea Master thinks about language, imagine a vast tea room where every word is a unique blend of tea.
In this tea room:
- 'Tea' and 'cuppa' are close together, like two blends of the same type.
- 'Lovely' and 'delightful' are nearby, representing positive experiences.
- 'Jonathan' and 'ATPGeo' are in their own corner, often mentioned in the same context.
The beauty of this system is that it understands relationships between words. So when you search for 'Jonathan's lovely cuppa', it knows to look for content about our favourite Youtuber, positive experiences, and tea - even if those exact words aren't used!
The Secret Ingredients: Vectors and Dimensions in Our Geopolitical Tea
Now, let's dive deeper into the magic behind our Geopolitical Tea Master's wisdom: vectors and dimensions. Imagine each word or phrase in our geopolitical tea room isn't just a point, but a complex blend with many different notes and flavours.
Vectors: The Recipe for Geopolitical Flavour
In the world of our search system, each word or phrase is represented as a vector - think of it as a unique recipe for a geopolitical tea blend. Just as a tea might have notes of "bergamot", "jasmine", or "fifteen sugars please", our word "vectors" have different amounts of various conceptual "flavours".
For example, the vector for "Yorkshire" might have strong notes of:
- An English county
- God's Own Country
- Home of Yorkshire Tea
- Up North
The Many Flavours of a Tea Party: Understanding Vector Dimensions
Let's dive deeper into our vector dimensions using a particularly intriguing example: the phrase "tea party." This seemingly simple term actually has a rich variety of meanings across different contexts, much like how a single tea blend can evoke different sensations depending on how it's brewed or who's drinking it.
Consider these different "flavours" of "tea party":
- Victorian Psychiatry: The tea parties held in asylums that inspired Lewis Carroll's Mad Hatter's tea party in Alice in Wonderland.
- American Revolution: The Boston Tea Party, a pivotal event in the "No Taxation Without Representation" movement.
- Social Gathering: The traditional afternoon tea, a genteel social occasion.
- Political Movement: The Tea Party movement in American politics, particularly prominent around 2010.
In our vector space, these different meanings wouldn't be separate dimensions themselves. Instead, they would be represented by different combinations of our 768 dimensions. Let's break it down:
Dimension Blending for "Tea Party"
Imagine our Geopolitical Tea Master creating a unique blend for each of these "tea party" concepts:
- Victorian Psychiatry Tea Party:
- Strong notes of: historical (19th century), medical practices, literary inspiration
- Subtle hints of: British culture, social norms, mental health awareness
- Boston Tea Party:
- Dominant flavours: American history, political protest, colonial era
- Undertones of: taxation policies, British Empire, revolution
- Social Gathering Tea Party:
- Primary tastes: social customs, leisure activities, culinary traditions
- Accents of: class structures, etiquette, British culture
- Tea Party Political Movement:
- Bold notes of: contemporary U.S. politics, conservative ideology, grassroots movements
- Hints of: fiscal policy, constitutionalism, populism
In this simplified 2D representation, we can see how different "tea party" concepts occupy different positions in our vector space. The actual vector would have 768 dimensions, allowing for much more nuanced differentiation.
How the Search System Handles Multiple Meanings
When you search for "tea party" in ATP Distilled, here's how our Geopolitical Tea Master might approach it:
- Context Awareness: The system would look at the surrounding words in your query and the broader context of recent episodes or your search history.
- Dimension Activation: Based on this context, certain dimensions in the vector would be emphasised more than others.
- Similarity Matching: The system would then find content chunks whose vectors are most similar to this context-adjusted "tea party" vector.
- Result Diversity: If the context isn't clear, the system might return a mix of results covering different "tea party" concepts, allowing you to explore various discussions, arguments and rants captured from the ATP Geo videos.
This multi-dimensional understanding allows our search system to be incredibly nuanced. For instance:
- If you search for "impact of tea party on modern politics," the system would likely emphasize the dimensions related to the contemporary political movement.
- A query like "historical tea party protests" would activate dimensions associated with the Boston Tea Party.
- Searching for "tea party in literature" might bring up discussions about Lewis Carroll and Victorian-era practices.
The Search Process: Brewing the Perfect Results
Let's put it all together and see how we brew up the perfect search results
- You type in your search query, let's say "JP's superb cuppas". Our Tea Master (the model) converts this into a rich, flavourful blend (embedding).
- It then looks through our tea room (the index) for similar blends.
- Using some tea magic (KNN search with k=150), it finds the 150 most similar chunks of content.
- These results are then steeped together, combining the power of keyword matching (30%) and semantic understanding (70%).
- Finally, we serve up a perfectly brewed list of video topics, likely featuring Jonathan extolling the virtues of a fine Yorkshire tea!
By representing words and phrases as these complex, multi-dimensional vectors, our search system can capture the rich tapestry of meanings and associations that exist in language and in Jonathan's wide-ranging geopolitical discussions.
So the next time you're sipping from your ATPGeo mug (10 designs available!) and pondering the intricacies of global politics, give the search system a try. You might just discover a perfectly brewed episode that answers your geopolitical queries!
Remember, just like brewing the perfect cup of tea, creating the ideal search system requires experimentation and refinement. We will be tweaking the parameters and adding extra features to provide a search experience that's everyone's cup of tea!
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