http://programmer.ie/tags/communities/ Recent content in Communities on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:00:04 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/memory/04-chapter/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:00:04 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/memory/04-chapter/ <p>Chapter 3 built the strongest conventional retrieval the book could assemble and left it standing. That result constrains this chapter before it begins. Any claim of the form <em>retrieval finds text but does not understand it</em> would be false about the system Chapter 3 actually built: a hybrid retriever, a cross-encoder reranker, and a capable reader already perform substantial interpretation at query time. The reader distinguishes proposals from decisions when the passages allow it, follows rationale across artifacts, and abstains when evidence runs out. That is understanding, deployed per query and discarded afterwards.</p>