In general it seems that organizations that are accepted to the GSoC program are no-profit like associations, that develop a product for the sake of developing it, probably there are also exceptions.<p>Anyway, it seems that qdrant is more a for-profit organization. So maybe that was the one of the criteria that was taken into account to exclude it?<p>My understanding might be wrong/incomplete, please let me know if that's not the case.
This is what Haskell did last summer: <a href="https://summer.haskell.org/news/2024-01-20-summer-of-haskell-2023-results.html" rel="nofollow">https://summer.haskell.org/news/2024-01-20-summer-of-haskell...</a>. Fortunately they got accepted this summer.
FWIW most organizations aren't accepted every year -- they have a limited number of slots and they like to use some of those to invite new organizations in each year.<p>So don't start looking for reasons why any organization wasn't accepted; there probably isn't one.
So they didn't find potential hires that would work for free on improving qdrant without any certainty of employment, and now they are starting a competition for it (for free again)?
I also applied with Glicol (<a href="https://glicol.org/" rel="nofollow">https://glicol.org/</a>) and got rejected. I guess the main reason is that the project is not as mature as others. I am basically working this project on my own with almost zero extra funding. There are so many places I want to change.<p>I am currently working on a new website. The old stack is Vite, Svelte and Windi CSS (discontinued unfortunately). So this time maybe Astro + Solid + Tailwind.<p>And I am also trying to rewrite the whole Rust backend if possible, so there is quite some work to be done. What I want to change most is to make the dsp algorithm of each node clear and easy to understand and contribute to. And I also hope that the entire rust project can have complete bench and test, as well as ci, and get rid of the proc macro.<p>Generally speaking, what I actually care about is how to compose music, and the new possibilities that live coding brings to improvisation and composition. There is also network cooperation, real-time or non-real-time cooperation, and cooperation with AI. What possibilities can these bring?<p>Let me know on GH or Discord if you are interested.<p>It's a good chance to try Rust, WASM, DSP, etc.
> WASM-based dimension reduction viz<p>> Implement a dimension reduction algorithm in Rust and compile to WASM and integrate the WASM code with Qdrant Web UI.<p>Easy, just use a Rust crate to fit a PCA (<a href="https://crates.io/crates/pca" rel="nofollow">https://crates.io/crates/pca</a>), then at runtime do a matmul between the fitted matrix and the embeddings to get it reduced. :P<p>Speaking of which, there's a surprising spike in downloads for that crate on the date this blog post was made.<p>It's not as simple in practice, and even popular dimensionality reduction techniques like UMAP require you to reference the original dataset which is infeasible for large datasets. The hacky approach that would be good for production use (maybe not "just want to visualize 2D embeddings because they look cool") would be to train a small Parametric UMAP model (with likely a non-Rust implementation: <a href="https://umap-learn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/parametric_umap.html" rel="nofollow">https://umap-learn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/parametric_umap....</a>), then convert the trained model to ONNX for WASM.
Just dropping my $0.02 cents on the Jepsen testing for Qdrant's distributed guarantees. While Jepsen is a solid choice, have you considered throwing Antithesis [1] into the mix as well? If it's already on your radar, then no worries, just figured I'd mention it.<p>[1]: <a href="https://antithesis.com/" rel="nofollow">https://antithesis.com/</a>
What's with the hashtags inside a normal blog post? It's not like they're writing this on Twitter or anything, and the hashtags aren't clickable, so I wouldn't expect this to serve as SEO. I would guess one of two things: (1) they plan to post the same content to social media or (2) they've decided that people search hashtags in their search engines in general.<p>I'd be interested if anybody has more insights into this.
This is the first GDPR banner I've ever seen that gives no options but "Consent" or "block our cookies with your browser." Is this willful noncompliance?
Who would spend even a minute for a unknown company called 'Qdrant' ?<p>They would develop for Google because Google would give an additional value to their CV.