Hey HN, I don’t know who else has the same issue, but:
Textbooks often bury good ideas in dense notation, skip the intuition, assume you already know half the material, and get outdated in fast-moving fields like AI.
Over the past 7 years of my AI/ML experience, I filled notebooks with intuition-first, real-world context, no hand-waving explanations of maths, computing and AI concepts.
In 2024, a few friends used these notes to prep for interviews at DeepMind, OpenAI, Nvidia etc. They all got in and currently perform well in their roles. So I'm sharing.
This is an open & unconventional textbook covering maths, computing, and artificial intelligence from the ground up. For curious practitioners seeking deeper understanding, not just survive an exam/interview.
To ambitious students, an early careers or experts in adjacent fields looking to become cracked AI research engineers or progress to PhD, dig in and let me know your thoughts.
barfiurean hour ago
Also I’m not sure if this is well known but Gemini has a nice quiz/test mode that you can use for learning. Ask it to quiz you on a subject and you can increase/decrease difficulty and keep going. I pair it up with textbooks as a learning tool; not in school or anything just for my own enjoyment.
reactordev3 hours ago
It would be nice if the unfinished sections had at least an outline so others could fill in the gaps. SIMD for example… :D
HenryNdubuakuop2 hours ago
ok, on it! I will reply in this thread so you can start contributing.
HenryNdubuakuop2 hours ago
These have now been pushed!
HenryNdubuakuop3 hours ago
Code walkthroughs and exercises are included, in Jax
hearsathought2 hours ago
Math, not Maths. You wouldn't called it Econs 101 would you?
HenryNdubuakuop2 hours ago
We call it Maths & Econs in England actually.
nimonian2 hours ago
Hey I wouldn't argue with this guy maybe he has a degree in Physic
hearsathoughtan hour ago
Using your logic, then chemistry should be shortened to "chemy"? Biology should be shortened to "bioy"? I'm going to my bioy class?
We shorten chemistry to chem, just like we shortened mathematics to math because we are just taking the first few letters of the word.
"Mathematics is a field of study..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics
Is A field of study. Mathematics isn't a "plural" even though it has an s at the end.
cobbal43 minutes ago
It's just a regional thing. Neither is correct or wrong. You may as well yell at a french person that the word is "cheese", not "formage".
From the very article you linked:
> In English, the noun mathematics takes a singular verb. It is often shortened to maths or, in North America, math.
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nimonian2 hours ago
For speakers of the King's English, we wouldn't say "econ 101" either. We would say economics.
101 is an interesting number! Winston was taken there in 1984 by a fascist group whose tactics included the rigorous standardisation and abolition of all variation and redundancy in the English language. Nice.
hearsathought2 hours ago
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