Understanding the LLM RAG pipeline

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) operates on a simple yet powerful premise: before generating a response, the system first retrieves relevant information from a database or a corpus of documents.…

Coleman's bathtub

James Coleman's bathtub (or boat) is a useful illustrative framework for any theory about society, economics or finance that tries to connect the dots between the big picture, and the small picture. The bathtub aims to illustrate how a macro situation (X) creates constraints on actors, which changes their micro-level…