When Switching Embeddings Doubles Recall: bge-m3 vs nomic on a Local RAG2026-07-06 by [Mathias WOLFF]airagembeddingbge‑m3nomicollamachromadbmethodologywazoOn a 100% private local RAG, replacing nomic-embed-text with bge-m3 and dropping runtime FR→EN translation took recall from 0.45 to 0.95 and cut latency by twelve. Measured, not guessed.