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Numbers Do Not Belong in the Model
A missing number gets noticed. A wrong one does not. That single asymmetry is why reading documents with a language model has to be treated differently from writing text with one.
- Numbers in language models require special attention and treatment.
- Multi-digit numbers often split into individual units during tokenization.
- Recommended solution involves extracting numbers from raw document before model involvement.
South Korea’s Exports Extend Chip-Led Growth in August
Semiconductors, which account for more than a third of South Korea’s exports by value this year, continued to drive the gains.
Why I Moved My Agent Knowledge Base Off Local Markdown
I moved the shared, agent-maintained part of my knowledge base off local Markdown because synchronization, paragraph identity, permissions, and concurrent writes had become application problems.
How to create concurrent tasks in Java, done by those who care about resources and performance
Este post nasce de uma preocupação que tenho levado cada vez mais a sério: entender como cada parte do código realmente impacta o uso de recursos.
RAG security: the retrieved document is now your attack surface
Cross-post. Original: stellarbytecapital.com/blog/rag-security Retrieval-augmented generation is the default way to make an LLM useful on your own data: fetch relevant documents, stuff them into the…
- Retrieval-augmented generation introduces untrusted data into language models.
- Malicious instructions in indexed sources can be executed with app authority.
- Securing RAG pipeline requires access control, tainted data treatment, and output guarding.
BUDI95 Quota Returns To 300 Litres Starting Today
The government has restored the monthly BUDI95 subsidised RON95 quota to 300 litres, effective today, 1 September 2026. This reverses the reduction to 200 litres introduced earlier this year.