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Building a Multilingual Campus Helper That Answers Only From Trusted Data
A student-support assistant using Gemini, retrieval scoring, and source citations in English, Tamil, and Sinhala, plus how it refuses to invent missing answers.
1591 wordsRead articleTokenization Is a System Design Decision, Not a Preprocessing Step
How byte-level BPE builds the vocabulary your LLM sees, why token counts differ by language, which failures it causes, and what to measure before blaming the model.
2081 wordsRead articleWhy Indian Languages Cost More Tokens in LLMs and How Tokenizers Get Fixed
The same sentence takes 5 tokens in English and 34 in Tamil. See how BPE training data causes it, what rebalancing and vocabulary size change, and how vocabulary expansion works.
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