AI by Hand

(byhand.ai)

168 points | by sans_souse 7 hours ago

9 comments

  • iamnotarobotman 3 hours ago
    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

  • rustyminnow 5 hours ago
    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.

  • zhainya 6 hours ago
    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?
    • lacoolj 4 hours ago
      Scroll all the way down and there's a video, it's a course he's making for deep-dive into how Qwen 3.6 works internally
    • mille562 5 hours ago
      Click "Later->" to bypass subscribe.
      • dominotw 5 hours ago
        dont see later
        • PTOB 1 hour ago
          Eventually, none of us do.
  • slowin 1 hour ago
    I found Deep Learning by No Starch Press to be an excellent primer the foundation of AI:

    https://nostarch.com/deep-learning-visual-approach

  • megadragon9 4 hours ago
    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

    • dominotw 4 hours ago
      wow this is nice work. i am diving into this world and was hoping to this exact thing. i am going to look to see how you did it. ty for sharing.
  • ThunderousVoid 2 hours ago
    I’d say bad UX design. It may or may not be something good behind the door. But why do I enter?
  • copperx 4 hours ago
    My professor used this "by hand" technique when teaching quantum computation algorithms, so I have a soft spot for it.
    • alok-g 56 minutes ago
      Nice! Is that also accessible online?
  • Damjanski 4 hours ago
    this is sick!