BDS Pipeline Performance Notes
Observed behavior across indexing, extraction, QA, and entity-card generation workloads.
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Lab notes from operational AI research.
Benchmark notes, retrieval findings, hardware experiments, pipeline behavior, and visual research updates.
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The Nuance Glossary
Every signal, column, and concept these lab notes rely on — Channel, Similarity, the Result Critic, anchors, wikilink repair, the corpus-shape trap — defined once, in plain language. The posts link back to it.
Open the Glossary →Lab Notes · 2026-06-07
Corpus-Shape Trap
Why “not in the corpus” is a useful finding, not a system failure.
Read →Agentic Systems · 2026-05-27
Switching Agents at Phase Two
How a VIOSINT build moved from Hermes/Gemma4 to Claude Opus, why the pivot happened, and what agent orchestration judgment is worth.
Read →Meaning vs Word Match
Why vector, BM25, and both signals need different interpretation rules.
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