James Briggs
Background
James Briggs is a technical writer and developer advocate at Pinecone, known for practical, implementation-focused articles on vector search, SPLADE, and metadata filtering.
Articles in This Vault
- SPLADE for Sparse Vector Search Explained
- The Missing WHERE Clause in Vector Search 1
- Nearest Neighbor Indexes for Similarity Search
- Choosing Indexes for Similarity Search (Faiss in Python) — video
Key Contributions
- Clear practitioner’s guide to SPLADE
- Explained the vector filtering problem and Pinecone’s single-stage solution
- Practical code examples for vector search with metadata
Concepts
- SPLADE
- Sparse Vector Retrieval
- Vector Filtering
- Dense Vector Retrieval
- Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
- HNSW · IVF · LSH