From "I Understood Nothing" to Building a RAG App (opens in new tab)

Yesterday, I took the time to go through 31 pages of my own notes on NLP, notes I had carefully created during an AI engineering course. However, I found that I understood very little of it. It felt odd and disheartening to have written something down yet not grasp it. I initially thought the issue was with me. But that wasn't the case. The real issue was that simply reading notes does not equate to true learning. My notes were packed with information intended for a version of me that already...