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A chapter-by-chapter review of the RAG search engine I built while completing Boot.dev’s Learn Retrieval Augmented Generation course. These notes focus on the main ideas introduced in each chapter and how they connect across the project.

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Course: Boot.dev — Learn Retrieval Augmented Generation

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Project: CLI movie search engine using keyword search, semantic search, hybrid retrieval, reranking, evaluation, RAG, and multimodal search

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Preprocessing → TF-IDF → BM25 → Semantic Search → Chunking → Hybrid Search → Query Enhancement → Reranking → Evaluation → Augmented Generation → Agentic RAG → Multimodal Search

Retrieval Foundations

Chapter 1: Text Pre-processing

Chapter 2: TF-IDF

Chapter 3: Keyword Search

Chapter 4: Semantic Search

Retrieval Improvements

Chapter 5: Chunking

Chapter 6: Hybrid Search

Chapter 7: LLMs

Chapter 8: Reranking

Chapter 9: Evaluation

Generation & Extensions

Chapter 10: Augmented Generation

Chapter 11: Agentic

Chapter 12: Multimodal