Milvus Adventures Dec 15, 2023
Tags: programming, tutorial, python, opensource
Published: 2023-12-16 01:08:12

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##COMMUNITY
Join us at our next one in San Francisco is on Jan 16, 2024. Please [register](https://lu.ma/vq31dazy) early because they fill up fast! We will be joined by

* Jack Retterer, DevRel, [Unstructured.io](https://unstructured.io/), *How to extract Tabular Data from PDFs for RAG Pipelines using Milvus*
* George Williams, Organizer, [Big-ANN NeurIPS 2023](https://big-ann-benchmarks.com/neurips23.html), *Are CPUs Enough? A Review Of Vector Search Running On Novel Hardware*
* Christy Bergman, Developer Advocate, Zilliz, *Vector Search in the Age of OpenAI Assistants using Milvus*
	 

##Open Source Advent
We are celebrating 25 different open source projects during the [Open Source Advent](https://zilliz.com/open-source-advent) this month! You can earn points all month long for a chance to win an exclusive swag pack from Zilliz and the participating projects! It’s a great chance to learn new skills and have some winter fun. Today is the first day and we are featuring [Milvus](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus)! You can join us in our [Discord channel ](https://discord.com/invite/ysPJtEZG)or check us out on GitHub! We'd love a ⭐ from you!


##ARTICLES
**Natural Language Processing (NLP)**

* [Unveiling the Power of Natural Language Processing: Top 10 Real-World Applications](https://zilliz.com/learn/top-5-nlp-applications)
* [Sparse and Dense Embeddings](https://zilliz.com/learn/sparse-and-dense-embeddings)
* [Similarity Metrics for Vector Search](https://zilliz.com/blog/similarity-metrics-for-vector-search)

**RAG**

* [Do you really know how to write Prompts?](https://zilliz.com/blog/improving-chatgpts-ability-to-understand-ambiguous-prompts)
* [How LangChain Implements Self Querying](https://zilliz.com/blog/How-LangChain-Implements-Self-Querying)

##TUTORIAL
**Create a Movie Recommendation Engine with Milvus and Python**
Vector embeddings are not just for RAG! [Build a movie recommender](https://zilliz.com/blog/create-a-movie-recommendation-engine-with-milvus-and-python) because it is actually fun to do!

**Building an Open Source Chatbot Using LangChain and Milvus in Under 5 Minutes**
This [tutoial](https://zilliz.com/blog/building-open-source-chatbot-using-milvus-and-langchain-in-5-minutes) uses a completely open-source RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) stack with LangChain to answer questions about Milvus using our product documentation web pages.


##VIDEOS
**Frank's RedHot Takes**

* [Why Open Source is the future of AI Data Infrastructure](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_P4FIDNOcI&list=PLPg7_faNDlT7ODZ3Lmc_vVp4O2ICi0UuQ&index=1)
* [Are Vector Databases dangerous?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhnJ4_omgSQ&list=PLPg7_faNDlT7ODZ3Lmc_vVp4O2ICi0UuQ&index=2)
* [Vector Database and Search
](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxEXeapnztw&list=PLPg7_faNDlT7ODZ3Lmc_vVp4O2ICi0UuQ&index=3)
* [OpenAI DevDay 2023 Retrieval API](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp2moCek-WQ)


##GITHUB REPOS
**[Akcio](https://github.com/zilliztech/akcio): Enhancing LLM-Powered ChatBot with CVP Stack** A full chatbot app all open-source for you to try out for your self!


**[GPT Cache.](https://github.com/zilliztech/GPTCache)** GPTCache is an open-source tool designed to improve the efficiency and speed of GPT-based applications by implementing a cache to store the responses generated by language models.

**[VectorDBBench](https://github.com/zilliztech/VectorDBBench)**. VectorDBBench is an open-source benchmarking tool to help you evaluate the performance of mainstream vector databases and cloud services with yoru specific use case.