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Using DuckDB for Embeddings and Vector Search (via) Sören Brunk's comprehensive tutorial combining DuckDB 1.0, a subset of German Wikipedia from Hugging Face (loaded using Parquet), the BGE M3 embedding model and DuckDB's new vss extension for implementing an HNSW vector index.

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