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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
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/ˈkɒntɛkst ˈwɪndoʊ/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A budget the organization fills with everything except the one document that decided the matter.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The maximum span of tokens a model can attend to in a single request, bounding how much it can consider at once.

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See also
  • chunkingCutting the policy in half exactly where the exception lived.
  • inferenceThe part priced per call, unlike the definitions it relies on, which are free and missing.
  • prompt engineeringWriting the requirements doc you skipped, one sentence at a time, into a text box.
  • retrieval-augmented generationA pipeline that retrieves the company's contradictory documents and asks the model to sound certain about all of them.