<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Embeddings on socratic notes</title><link>https://socraticagent.dev/tags/embeddings/</link><description>Recent content in Embeddings on socratic notes</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://socraticagent.dev/tags/embeddings/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Why Raw Queries Break RAG</title><link>https://socraticagent.dev/blog/why-raw-queries-break-rag/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://socraticagent.dev/blog/why-raw-queries-break-rag/</guid><description>A first-principles walkthrough of why raw user queries fail RAG retrieval, and the four techniques — contextualization, decomposition, expansion, metadata filtering — that fix each distinct failure mode.</description></item></channel></rss>