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Case Study: How a $240K RAG Failure Teaches Us What Not To Do
An in-depth analysis of a real-world RAG system failure in the legal industry, and the architectural lessons every AI engineer should learn from it.
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30 min read7 min readEmbeddings Explained: How AI Understands Meaning
A comprehensive guide to embeddings - the secret sauce behind modern AI's understanding of language, images, and more. Learn how words become numbers that capture meaning.
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Debasish Maji
AI Engineering Lead
February 15, 2026
EmbeddingsNLPVector DatabasesSemantic SearchRAG
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Visual representations to help you understand the core concepts at a glance.
Word Embeddings in Vector Space
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