Retrievia

Map of Retrievia

Pick a phase to continue your journey.

Welcome Village

What AI is, essential vocabulary, and using prompts with a critical eye.

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World 0 · The Summoner

Write better prompts: clear instructions, few-shot, and system prompts.

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World 1 · The Model Workshop

Data, models, training, and evaluation: the bridge between prompts and RAG.

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World 2 · The Librarian

Why keyword search fails — embeddings, similarity, and chunking.

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World 3 · The Alchemist

Build a full RAG pipeline: retrieve, generate, and hunt hallucinations.

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World 4 · The Gem Cutter

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Advanced retrieval: labels, reranking, neighbor expansion, and semantic compression.

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World 5 · The Engineer

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Production: caching, PDF ingestion, vector backend, and the reranker's budget.

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World 6 · The Cartographer

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GraphRAG: entities, provenance, traversal, and multi-hop questions.

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World 7 · The Guardian

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Terminology, concept drift, confidence, gates, and abstention.

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