Both registries already have a `catena`: an HPE blockchain client on PyPI,
and a JavaScript OOP wrapper at 2.2.0 on npm. Neither is going anywhere, so
the distributions take a name that is free on both.
The Python import is unaffected — a distribution name and a module name are
independent there, so `pip install catena-corpus` still gives `import
catena`, and nothing in the examples or the bindings changes. On npm the
package name is the import specifier, so that one does change: `import
{ chunkMarkdown } from "catena-corpus"`.
The crates keep their own names. `catena` is free on crates.io.
Eight of them, each doing something a pipeline actually has to do, and each
starting from something anyone can fetch — a public domain book from Project
Gutenberg, a NASA broadcast, or a sample carried in the file.
Shell, because the tools are filters first: a book to passages and what its
notes cite; a recording to chapter marks, citable passages and the one
ffmpeg call that makes it play on a phone; passages into pgvector and a
search that asks twice and reconciles.
Rust, for the case where the caller already holds the text and a subprocess
would be serialising for nothing. Python, for the shape a pipeline stage
takes once the reading is a library call. TypeScript, for the app side —
chapter marks and deep links, and fusing two rankings in process.
Three of them end with what re-ranking means, because it is two different
things under one name: fusing ranked lists, which is what `rrf` does and
needs no model, and a cross-encoder scoring query and passage together,
which is accurate, slow, and runs over what retrieval already found.
Two things between a converted EPUB and its chapter titles.
The heading level taken as the chapter map was the shallowest present. Pandoc
writes the book's title as the only `#` and every real chapter as a `##`, so
the shallowest level had one heading in it and the whole book came back as a
single chapter. The dividing level is now the shallowest one used more than
once — a level used once is a title.
And an empty bracketed span survived the heading cleaner, because the pattern
wanted at least one character between the brackets. Pandoc writes an anchor
as exactly that: `## []{#link2H_INTR} Introduction`.
Gibbon's first volume, converted from the Project Gutenberg EPUB: 2 distinct
chapter titles before, 61 after, and none of them carrying an element id.
funkpower