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48.1 Key terms: tokens, context, temperature, tools, RAG
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Definitions
- Token
- A chunk of text (approx 0.75 words). The unit of billing and memory.
- Context Window
- The model's "RAM." How much text it can see at once. (Gemini 1.5 Pro = 2M tokens).
- Temperature
- Randomness knob. 0.0 = Deterministic/Coding. 1.0 = Creative/Crazy.
- RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)
- Looking up data in a database and pasting it into the prompt before asking the question.
- Hallucination
- When the model confidently states a fact that is false. It is not lying; it is predicting the next plausible word.