Exercises

Create an ingestion contract; preserve headings; inspect analyzers; tune an ANN index; fuse rankings; build hard negatives; calculate ranking metrics; audit citations; resolve conflicts; test freshness; prove deletion; and replay a traced failure.

Required evidence

Submit runnable commands, immutable source and index versions, stage-specific measurements, representative failures, one rejected alternative, and a decision with an explicit stop condition. Screenshots and untraceable generated prose do not pass.

Oral defense

Trace one output backward to its source, explain the first failing stage in one counterexample, justify the baseline and metric, and demonstrate update or deletion behavior.

Source backbone

Use Designing Data-Intensive Applications, official engine documentation, primary retrieval research, and NIST AI RMF selectively.