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Equation 21 · Part 1 · Ten Failure Modes That Define Production RAG

Symbol tau_i

τi\tau_i
τi\tau_i

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tauiu_i is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

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tauiu_i is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

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and the marginal value of building a detector is whatever it removes from τi\tau_i . Written this way, the ranking departs sharply from intuition, because τi\tau_i spans several orders of magnitude across the ten while λi\lambda_i and ℓi\ell_i vary far less.

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