AI by Hand

zhainya

I'm not sure what this is. Click past the subscribe page to get a bunch of links to descriptions of articles I could read if I was a subscriber?

rustyminnow

https://www.byhand.ai/p/library > AI by Hand is the research publication of By Hand Research, founded by Prof. Tom Yeh. By Hand Research studies model interpretability and explainability at the math and algorithm level. Subscribers receive free new articles and join live seminars. Members get access to our full research library.

megadragon9

i created something similar a while back. Inspired by micrograd for showing the connection between math/calculus and code, then building along the way to a full NumPy deep learning library that I pretrained GPT-2 124M model with it. One way to learn is to trace through the PRs merged to the repo in chronological order. The philosophy is the same: "What I cannot create, I do not understand." https://github.com/workofart/ml-by-hand

Damjanski

this is sick!

copperx

My professor used this "by hand" technique when teaching quantum computation algorithms, so I have a soft spot for it.

iamnotarobotman

This is also recommended reading if you want to learn more about building LLMs from scratch: See: Train your own LLM - https://github.com/angelos-p/llm-from-scratch HN Discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017948

ThunderousVoid

I’d say bad UX design. It may or may not be something good behind the door. But why do I enter?

slowin

I found Deep Learning by No Starch Press to be an excellent primer the foundation of AI: https://nostarch.com/deep-learning-visual-approach

AdieuToLogic

See also: Foundations of Large Language Models[0] 0 - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.09223v2

vivzkestrel

- half the posts are locked - other half have no visualizations whatsoever - i have posted far better resources than this in the past collecting everything HN has over a 10 yr period on these subjects https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183198