RAG isn't an AI problem. It's a data engineering problem wearing an AI hat.
RAG is data engineering
Steady31
signal score
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sources · rag
⏳ Too early
trajectory — needs a few more hourly snapshots
Why this scored 31
every term, weightedEngagement per hour, normalized against the fastest item on its own source
Whether that velocity is itself speeding up, as a per-hour rate
How many independent communities are talking about the same entity
Decays to zero over 14 days
Subtracted once something is big and old — we rank what's next, not what's peaked
Weights are hand-tuned, not learned — we're calibrating them against realized trends as history accumulates. On a topic's first sighting there's no previous reading to compare against, so acceleration starts from a neutral prior rather than a measurement. Full methodology
Signal history
7-day window (free)Entities
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