Learning track

Orientation & Foundations

Build an accurate mental model of language models and the mathematics needed for everything that follows.

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Orientation & Foundations

Build an accurate mental model of language models and the mathematics needed for everything that follows.

  1. 01.01What is a language model, really?
  2. 01.02A 60-second history: n-grams to the GPT-5 era
  3. 01.03Probability you actually need
  4. 01.04Vectors, matrices, and dot products
  5. 01.05Matrix multiplication as transformation
  6. 01.06Derivatives and gradients, geometrically
  7. 01.07Python, NumPy, and PyTorch in 20 minutes
  8. 01.08How to read an ML paper