A teaching demonstration

Transparent RAG

When a chatbot answers a question about a document, it looks like magic and you are asked to take it on faith. This page removes the faith. Every stage between your question and the answer is shown in order — and once the answer exists, it is checked, sentence by sentence, against the text it came from.

CorpusUnified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts·August 2025 revision·8 pages
Explain it
No jargon. Written for anyone.

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Please refer to the GitHub repo for the source code: github.com/aadiikun/Scratch-RAG

Compare the two pipelines

the point

Run the same question through the blunt pipeline and the careful one at the same time, and watch the numbers move. Everything below splits into two columns.

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