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Mukul Raina

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft
MS University of Oxford, UK

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1-Hour RAG Crash Course: PDF Lecture Slides

7 sections, 16 RAG patterns and 15 interview answers. All lecture slides from the 1-hour course.

• 7 Sections. Retrieval-augmented generation, chunking and metadata, embeddings and similarity search, retrieval quality, grounded generation, evaluation, and a complete RAG system design.
• 16 RAG Patterns with Examples. Structure-aware chunking, permission filters, hybrid search, reciprocal rank fusion, cross-encoder reranking, cited answers, effective-date filters and 9 more, each with a production example.
• Bonus: One-Page Cheat Sheet. The whole pipeline, starting numbers and the five causes of a wrong answer with their fixes, plus 15 interview questions with model answers.