Every post is an experiment. Test the test before you test the model.https://blog.seemakurthi.com/https://blog.seemakurthi.com/exp/hyde-hypothetical-document-embeddings/https://blog.seemakurthi.com/exp/hyde-hypothetical-document-embeddings/When your query and its answer live in different parts of the embedding space — and how generating a hypothetical answer first bridges that gap.Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.seemakurthi.com/exp/step-back-prompting-retrieval/https://blog.seemakurthi.com/exp/step-back-prompting-retrieval/Before answering a specific question, ask a broader one — retrieve foundational context, then answer the original with both in hand.Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.seemakurthi.com/exp/crag-corrective-rag/https://blog.seemakurthi.com/exp/crag-corrective-rag/Retrieval can fail silently. CRAG adds a confidence-scoring evaluator between the retriever and the generator — discarding bad chunks before the LLM ever sees them.Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.seemakurthi.com/exp/vector-spaces-cosine-similarity/https://blog.seemakurthi.com/exp/vector-spaces-cosine-similarity/Why two texts can mean the same thing without sharing a single word — and how a dot product turns that intuition into a retrieval engine.Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT