Anyone can say 'filter and dedup.' The signal is the funnel in cost order, the MinHash/LSH banding math, and knowing the shuffle at billions of documents is what actually costs you, plus benchmark decontamination people forget until their eval numbers get challenged.
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Anyone can say 'filter and dedup.' The signal is the funnel in cost order, the MinHash/LSH banding math, and knowing the shuffle at billions of documents is what actually costs you, plus benchmark decontamination people forget until their eval numbers get challenged.
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