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Part 2: More than textEpisode 8 of 18

Embeddings, search and classifiers

How a model turns meaning into coordinates, so the tracker can search a recipe library by meaning and tell a meal from a question.

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What this episode covers

  1. Meaning as coordinates
  2. Nearest-neighbour search
  3. Retrieval: fetch, then put it in the window
  4. Chunking, and why retrieval can miss
  5. When a plain keyword search is the better tool
  6. Classifiers and routers: small, cheap decisions
  7. Guardrails are classifiers too
  8. The tracker: a library you can search, and a sorter