embedding
A list of numbers representing a piece of text's meaning, arranged so that similar meanings land near each other. The basis of every 'find me related code' feature.
Where it comes up
Cursor 101
“Cursor, it will index your files in the background and generate embeddings, which are all hashed and stored like your raw code is not stored on Cursor servers, but um the the hashes of these embeddings are and we can quickly uh do a semanti…”
Cursor 201
“ASP.NET, it's an e-commerce platform. Cool. Um and then it's giving me this kind of like top-level diagram. So, it's using diagrams where it it thinks that they're appropriate. And so, this is another piece that we talk about in the 101. Li…”
Cursor for Sales Engineers
“and I can just ask these uh uh these uh specific questions uh even if they're very high level. How do how does this work? How does this service work within our uh uh within our product? How does indexing uh uh kind of uh uh create vector em…”
Cursor 201
“Um cursor kind of specifically as a product uses something called semantic search, Um, is uh, we're able to do by um, indexing all the files in your workspace um, and then uh, embedding them into a vector store. Um, and then when you run a…”