Learn to use AI

Retrieval and tools

Retrieval and tools is a unit of 7 lessons in Rabbithole's Learn to use AI course, at level 2. The same lessons are also in Become an AI engineer as “Retrieval and tools, plainly”.

Lessons

1. BM25: when exact words matterLevel 2
2. Chunking: cutting long text down to sizeLevel 2
3. Hybrid search: words plus meaningLevel 2
4. Knowledge graphs for RAG: linking facts across documentsLevel 2
5. RAG: giving an AI a lookup memoryLevel 2
6. Reranking: a second look at search resultsLevel 2
7. ReAct: an AI that thinks, then acts, then checksLevel 2

Sources

These lessons draw on 10 sources. The most used:

• Claude Cookbooks
• Supabase Documentation
• openai/openai-cookbook
• Anthropic Engineering blog
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks
• ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models
• Hugging Face Agents Course
• Vercel Documentation

All units in Learn to use AI