Beyond the ChatbotOne Layer Deeper
Glossary

The back pages.

Every term the notebook uses, in plain language, pointing to the note that explains it properly. A place to look something up, not to learn it.

CMT
Context window
The fixed amount of text a model can have in front of it at one time: your question, the conversation so far, any document you pasted, and the answer it is writing. When it is full, the oldest text drops out. It is a working space, not a memory.Explained properly in Note 09, Section 3.
Model
The trained system that turns text in into text out. It is not the same as the product you use it through: the chat window, the search, the memory features and the safety rules are wrapped around the model by whoever built the product.Explained properly in Note 12, Section 3.
Token
The unit a model actually reads and writes. Roughly a word or a piece of a word: "notebook" may be one token, "strawberry" may be several. Everything the model does, and everything it costs, is counted in tokens.Explained properly in Note 02, Section 1.