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19th November 2024 - Link Blog

Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm (via) Evan Schwartz provides a deep dive explanation of how the classic BM25 search relevance scoring function works, including a very useful breakdown of the mathematics it uses.

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 19th November 2024.

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