AI & Data Foundations
A reading path through machine-learning, deep-learning, and data foundations, connecting model assumptions, worked examples, and evaluation.
A reading path through machine-learning, deep-learning, and data foundations, connecting model assumptions, worked examples, and evaluation.
A practical map of the control, context, tool, evidence, and evaluation layers around AI agents.
A map for analyzing algorithms, recognizing design patterns, and choosing an appropriate problem-solving family.
Depth-first search over decisions with reversible state and sound pruning.
A map from limits and derivatives through integration, gradients, optimization, automatic differentiation, and symbolic computation.
A map from limits and derivatives to integration, gradients, and optimization.
Choose a starting point for algorithm costs, data structures, Python programming, and testing.
A compact map of the durable ideas that sit underneath programming languages, frameworks, and AI systems.
Notes on color, programming symbols, and music selections.
A path from questions and data-generating processes to reproducible transformations, leakage-resistant splits, distribution-shift evaluation, and bounded conclusions.
A representation-first map for choosing containers by operations, invariants, and memory behavior.
A path through MLPs, modern activations, RNNs, attention, and Transformers that also treats leakage and distribution shift as part of model evaluation.
Places where foundational knowledge becomes applied work, judgment, and continuing curiosity.
A state-first method for problems with reusable subproblem structure.
Question-led paths into algorithms, data structures, calculus, and model evaluation.
Dated comparisons to help choose models, APIs, local inference setups, and coding agents.
A compact map of latent-variable and diffusion approaches to learning data distributions.
A problem-first map for traversal, shortest paths, and minimum spanning trees.
Local-choice algorithms organized around proof obligations and counterexamples.
A map from problem formulation and evaluation to supervised, unsupervised, sequential, and deep learning methods.
Mathematical foundations for reasoning, modeling, computer science, and machine learning.
Find conceptual starting points, practical guides, lookup references, writing, and experiments.
A foundation map for approximation, error, stability, and reliable computation with finite precision.
A task-oriented map for tabular data work with pandas.
A compact map of the maintained language notes on this site and how to choose what to learn next.
A compact learning map for Python's object model, control flow, functions, collections, files, and classes.
Financial markets, mathematical modeling, and quantitative experiments.
Direct links to command references, derivative formulas, and computing and machine-learning definitions.
A decision map for lookup, ordered search, and graph traversal.
Choose among nine browser experiments on trajectories, light, and patterns, then explore their models and implementation.
A decision map for comparison sorting, stability, adaptiveness, and memory trade-offs.
A map from executable examples and unit tests to integration, system, and operational confidence.
Practical guides for project setup, document search, terminal work, servers, and media tasks.