Every LLM buzzword explained as a fantasy story (RAG, MoE, LoRA, RoPE, etc.)

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isranimohit · 23h ago

I'm a staff ML engineer trying to internalize modern GenAI concepts, and wrote this to explain LLM buzzwords (RAG, RLHF, MoE, etc.) through a fantasy metaphor. It’s a follow-up to two other stories on how LLMs and RAG systems work. Would love feedback from the HN crowd.

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Every LLM buzzword explained as a fantasy story (RAG, MoE, LoRA, RoPE, etc.)

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