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

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semantic cache

/sɪˈmæntɪk kæʃ/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A faster way to return last week's answer to a definition that changed on Tuesday.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A store of prior model responses keyed by meaning, returned to avoid recomputing similar queries.

Filed
See also
  • embeddingsCoordinates that faithfully encode whatever bias the source corpus never declared.
  • stalenessThe state a dashboard reaches quietly, while still rendering its last good number with full confidence.
  • vector databaseThe new system of record for documents no one would govern in the old system of record.