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Lightning Talk Development and Protocol

Keywords vs Embeddings

Jasper Rädisch · @raedisch.net
Sunday, March 29, 2026
4:00 PM – 4:10 PM PT
Room 2301
Available in-person & via livestream — Stream 3 (Room 2301)

Insights from building discovery feeds: from naive keyword extraction to naive embedder usage to better insights into how both work and might be combined to understand and match Bluesky posts(-ers). Based on your feedback I can make this more or less ATproto specific (e.g. scraping pitfalls), also more or less technical, leaning towards less technical. A light intro to TF-IDF (sparse) vs EmbeddingGemma (dense) vectors.