The Alexandria Index
Massive internet datasets, embedded, open-sourced and free
The Alexandria Index launched on May 27, 2023 with 137 votes, #305 of 4,910 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
What it does
Vector embeddings are incredibly powerful, compressing text into a low-dimensional 'meaning space', but they're also shockingly cheap. Alexandria is an open-source project to embed and release (for free) large datasets in research, law, medicine and more.
From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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