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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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chunking

/ˈtʃʌŋkɪŋ/ - n.

1 [colloq.] Cutting the policy in half exactly where the exception lived.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. Splitting source documents into passages sized for retrieval and model context windows.

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See also
  • context windowA budget the organization fills with everything except the one document that decided the matter.
  • embeddingsCoordinates that faithfully encode whatever bias the source corpus never declared.
  • retrieval-augmented generationA pipeline that retrieves the company's contradictory documents and asks the model to sound certain about all of them.
  • vector databaseThe new system of record for documents no one would govern in the old system of record.