Build production RAG systems in Node.js - Know where it breaks, why it works, and when to use it
👦 Nephew: Uncle, why would I build RAG in Node.js? I thought this was AI stuff?
👨🦳 Uncle: Good question. Node.js is perfect for RAG because:
...The demo ran flawlessly for three weeks. Every test input parsed clean, every output routed correctly, and I thought we had a reliable system.
Then a supplier sent a confirmation email with an empty subject line.
The agent, which was supposed to extract order references and route them into a queue, got a null where it expected a string. It didn't crash. That would have been bett...
For most of modern history, research was strongly tied to institutions.
Universities.
Research laboratories.
Government agencies.
Large organizations.
These institutions remain extremely important today.
However, the rise of open science has changed the landscape in ways that would have been difficult to imagine only a few decades ago.
The...
La domanda colpisce un nervo scoperto dell'economia italiana. Il quadro che emerge dai dati ufficiali è piuttosto netto: l'Italia investe in R&D solo l'1,38% del PIL (2024), contro il 2,24% della media UE, il 3,1% della Germania e il 2,2% della Francia. Ma la vera anomalia è nella composizione: solo il 51% della spesa R&D nazionale proviene dalle imprese, contro il 66% della me...
Many research projects begin in private.
Notes remain on personal computers.
Drafts stay hidden.
Ideas circulate only among a small number of people.
I have chosen a different approach.
Whenever possible, I prefer to develop research in public.
What Does “Research in Public” Mean?
Publishing research in public does not necessarily mean pub...
When people discuss open science, they usually focus on research papers.
They talk about publications, citations, peer review, and discoveries.
Yet behind every visible research output exists a largely invisible infrastructure that makes modern scholarly communication possible.
This hidden infrastructure deserves more attention.
Beyond Papers
A research p...