Fixed-size chunking
Dividing content by a fixed character or token count.
What Fixed-size chunking means
It is reproducible and cheap, but it can separate a claim from its evidence or qualification.
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Questions about Fixed-size chunking
What is Fixed-size chunking?
Dividing content by a fixed character or token count.
Which area of the glossary does Fixed-size chunking belong to?
Retrieval engineering: How pages become chunks, vectors and candidates inside an answer engine, and why being retrieved is not being cited.
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