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Machine learning meme: A librarian on a ladder squints at books crammed into one corner shelf of an empty library hall.

Why retrieval returns the wrong passage

Average raw BERT token outputs without fine-tuning and the vectors crowd into a narrow cone. The geometry is trained, not given.

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Machine learning meme: a puzzled developer holds one result while judge A raises a check and judge B raises a cross.

Same pipeline. New score.

Nothing in the pipeline changed. We swapped the judge model and the faithfulness score moved.

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Computer science meme: An HNSW bouncer turns away a queue of documents and lets only three into the model's VIP room.

The model only meets who the bouncer lets in.

Spent a week tuning the prompt. The index had already decided which documents the model would never see.

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LLM meme: a developer types an answer from memory, then tapes a matching paper from a pile underneath as the source.

Answer first. Citation bolted on after.

How RAG citations really work: write the answer from memory, then find a document that happens to agree and staple it on as the source. Bibliographically correct. Generatively made up.

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