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RAG Isn't Dead, You Just Need a Better Starting Point

by Corey in Conferences tags: RAG, AI_Engineer_Europe, open_source, retrieval, agents

Phil Nash (X, LinkedIn), a developer relations engineer at IBM, opened his AI Engineer Europe talk by taking aim at the "RAG is dead" discourse. His counter is simple: if every business had less than a million tokens of data, maybe. But they don't, and not everyone wants to pay …

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WTF is BM25? The Intuition Behind the Algorithm

by Corey in Writing tags: AI, machine_learning, algorithms, RAG, retrieval

BM25 is an unsung hero powering heaps of stuff you use every day – think search bars, recommendation systems, or even those fancy AI chatbots that somehow dig up the right info from a mountain of text (we're looking at you, Retrieval-Augmented Generation).

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