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Learning to outgrow the competition: Reaction–diffusion systems that adapt to time-dependent environments

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 35, September 2026. SignificanceAdaptive behavior in living systems relies on the interplay between learning and reproduction, yet it is unclear how these capabilities emerge and couple, starting from simple chemical processes. We introduce a minimal nonequilibrium chemical ...

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Chunking: the most underrated decision in your RAG pipeline

Ask a team how their RAG pipeline works and they will tell you about the embedding model, the vector database, and maybe the reranker.

  • Teams often default to fixed-size chunkers cutting documents into 500-token segments with overlap.
  • Heading-aware chunkers respect document structure, preserving information coherence.

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