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Apple announces AirPods 5 with ‘best-in-class open‑ear active noise cancellation’

Today, Apple announced the AirPods 5, updates to the AirPods 4 series that was first released in 2024. Apple says the new buds feature "best-in-class open‑ear active noise cancellation." The AirPods 5 are redesigned with a new acoustic architecture, upgrades to adaptive active noise cancellation (ANC) with 50 percent better noise reduction than the AirPods […]

Apple announces AirPods 5 with ‘best-in-class open‑ear active noise cancellation’

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The Retrieval Stack Nobody Shows You: Chunking, Reranking, Filtering, and Context

Most RAG failures are not model failures. The model did not forget how to read. The prompt is not necessarily bad. The embedding model is not always the culprit.

  • Chunking preserves document structure for effective evidence use
  • Start with small chunks, expand with larger sections for context
  • Filtering based on metadata and trust determines relevant documents

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