RAG Foundations: Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Measure Misses and Leaks

Evaluate retrieval, answer support, and access control separately with a reproducible question set.

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The curriculum

  1. Admit Documents Deliberately — Free preview

    Make ownership, permitted audiences, and document revisions part of ingestion before building a search index.

  2. Establish Search Baselines — Free preview

    Measure exact-word retrieval and a tiny semantic representation before introducing a larger search stack.

  3. Keep Evidence Attached — Sign-in access

    Choose chunk boundaries that preserve meaning and carry source coordinates through every transformation.

  4. Combine Rankings Without Hiding the Evidence — Sign-in access

    Fuse complementary retrieval results and account for duplicates, permissions, and missing evidence.

  5. Answer Only What Is Supported — Free preview

    Create answer contracts, validate citation identifiers, and make uncertainty useful to the reader.

  6. Read Tables With Their Context — Sign-in access

    Represent tables and visual evidence without losing units, headers, coordinates, or uncertainty.

  7. Measure Misses and Leaks — Sign-in access

    Evaluate retrieval, answer support, and access control separately with a reproducible question set.

  8. Ship Fieldnote With Evidence — Sign-in access

    Assemble a local capstone with versioned artifacts, reproducible tests, and a release decision grounded in measured behavior.