Notes from the den.
Experiences, reflections, and hard-won lessons from our members - every researcher here has a standing invitation to share. Want to write one? Get in touch.
9 RAG Architectures You Should Actually Know in 2026
Naive RAG, reranking, hybrid search, GraphRAG, agentic and multimodal retrieval: what each one fixes, what it costs, and how to pick.
Md Sultanul Islam Ovi
Writing Research Code That Isn't a Single 800-Line Notebook
A five-stage pipeline is a directed acyclic graph, not a linear script. What belongs in a script, and what belongs in a notebook.
Ann Naser Nabil
Parsing PDFs Is Broken: How Docling and PixelRAG Are Fixing Unstructured Data
When your RAG system hallucinates numbers, the problem is usually the ingestion pipeline, not the model.
Miraj Uddin Chowdhury
My Model Won't Learn: A Debugging Checklist
2.30 at step 0, 2.30 at step 500. The order to check things in, starting with the test that splits the problem in half.
Md. Tanvir Mahamud Himel
Config-Driven Experiments, or How I Stopped Editing Code to Change a Learning Rate
Hyperparameters hardcoded across four scripts, and a paper that reported two different F1 values for the same model.
The Writing Mistakes in Almost Every First Paper
Mechanics, structure, framing, evidence, and compliance: the five places a manuscript loses its reviewer.
Muhsina Tarannum Munfa
Experiment Tracking Before You Have 200 Runs You Can't Tell Apart
Four hundred runs, three tools, and no way to answer which one produced the numbers in the paper.