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rafael fuentes

Rafael Fuentes Rangel

Software Engineer · ML/AI Engineer

I build production-oriented AI systems and agentic workflows, and I explore problems at the intersection of machine learning, software engineering, mathematics, and scientific research. This site collects my research notes, engineering projects, and a working notebook.

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  • When the Nearest Neighbor Is Everyone's Neighbor

    Aug 3, 2026

    A 50-document retrieval experiment where cosine similarity's aggregate metrics looked fine while a handful of documents kept surfacing for unrelated queries. Measuring the neighbor graph directly, and correcting it with CSLS, separates a geometric problem from a semantic one, and shows why fixing the first barely touches the second.

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