Research Lab

Research, for engineers who ship. Every major paper - analyzed, rated, and mapped to production reality.

What's Here

Section	What it contains
Paper Breakdowns	Engineering-lens analysis of landmark papers with production viability ratings
Research Roadmaps	Curated reading paths - read papers in the right order, with context
Paper Autopsies	Honest critique of hyped papers that underdelivered
Interactive Explainers	Visual, hands-on explanations of core concepts

How to Use This

New to a topic? → Start with a Research Roadmap. Read the papers in order, with the context between them explained.

Evaluating a specific paper? → Go to Paper Breakdowns. Every paper has a production viability rating, engineering notes, and honest limitations.

Something felt overhyped? → Check Paper Autopsies. We document what failed and why.

Want to see it, not just read it? → Interactive Explainers have visual, hands-on demos of the concepts.

Production Viability Rating System

Every paper breakdown includes three ratings:

Dimension	🟢	🟡	🔴
Compute	Consumer GPU	Cloud GPU	TPU cluster
Implementation	Days	Weeks	Months
Production Ready	Ship it now	With caveats	Research only

Start Here

• RAG Evolution Roadmap → - From the original paper to production-grade RAG. 8 papers, full context.
• AI Agents Roadmap → - Chain-of-Thought to LangGraph. 9 papers, full agent evolution.
• RLHF & Alignment Roadmap → - InstructGPT to ORPO. 7 papers on making LLMs do what you want.
• Multimodal Roadmap → - CLIP to Gemini. 9 papers on vision + language.
• ReAct Paper Breakdown → - The foundation of every AI agent being built today.
• Interactive Explainers → - The best visual tools for understanding transformers, attention, embeddings, and more.