Embedding Dimension Reduction: When 1536 256 Doesn't Hurt Recall
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Posted on May 7
# Embedding Dimension Reduction: When 1536 256 Doesn't Hurt Recall
[#rag](https://dev.to/t/rag)[#ai](https://dev.to/t/ai)[#embeddings](https://dev.to/t/embeddings)[#perfo
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Posted on May 7
# Embedding Dimension Reduction: When 1536 256 Doesn't Hurt Recall
[#rag](https://dev.to/t/rag)[#ai](https://dev.to/t/ai)[#embeddings](https://dev.to/t/embeddings)[#perfo
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