Lesson 074: Retrieval choreography baselines
Focus
Bias toward observable metrics, not model marketing. Token Retrieval choreography baselines:74 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Retrieval choreography baselines · drill v4 · spin
562901. - Habit: pair every model utterance with a trace_id you could paste into Grafana.
- Guardrail: write one RACI bullet referencing this lesson tomorrow.
Deep dive notebook
Synthetic drill artefacts
Retrieval partitioning plan
| Slice | Tokens | Retrieval mode | Notes |
|-------|--------|----------------|-------|
| FAQs | 407 | hybrid@0.54 | keep tables contiguous |
| Policies | 497 | dense@0.69 | include footnotes |
Drill: justify why chunk boundaries fall where they do for lesson 74.
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded retrieval once; screenshot graceful degradation copy. — 74 Bump literals mindset by 9.