Embeddings Simply Explained
An embedding is a vector of numbers that places meaning in space. Why similar content sits close together and what embeddings are used for.
Basis-Begriffe rund um Large Language Models.
An embedding is a vector of numbers that places meaning in space. Why similar content sits close together and what embeddings are used for.
Why LLMs confidently invent falsehoods, what types of hallucinations exist, and which remedies actually help — RAG, source enforcement, verification.
How an LLM picks the next token: temperature sharpens or flattens the probabilities, top-p and top-k limit the choice. Which setting for what.
What the context window is, how big modern windows are, the lost-in-the-middle phenomenon, cost and latency, and the distinction from RAG and long-term memory.
What a token is, how tokenizers split text, and why tokens drive cost, context window, and speed — with rules of thumb for estimating token counts.