AI & Machine Learning

Understand the machines rewriting everything

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Note. AI tools change fast and confidently get things wrong. Verify anything high-stakes against primary sources, and never paste secrets/PII into untrusted endpoints.

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framework

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

(Retrieval-Augmented Generation)

Open-book exam for the model. Fetch the right page, then let it answer.

Definition

RAG is a pattern where, before the model answers, relevant chunks of your own documents are fetched and pasted into the prompt, so the answer is grounded in your sources instead of the model's frozen memory.

Step 1

Predict first

In one or two sentences, what do you think this concept means? Wrong is fine; the small struggle is what makes the answer stick.