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2026-08-13
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RAG & Retrieval
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Embeddings from Scratch — from word2vec Intuition to Contextual Embeddings
Why does 'king − man + woman ≈ queen' actually work? A from-zero tour of embeddings: the map metaphor, the distributional hypothesis, the word2vec math, numpy code, contextual embeddings after BERT, and the knobs you touch in real RAG systems.