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Show HN: Maths, CS and AI Compendium
by HenryNdubuaku
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often bury good ideas in dense notation, skip the intuition, assume you already know half the material, and get outdated in fast-moving fields like AI.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.
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.
It would be nice if the unfinished sections had at least an outline so others could fill in the gaps. SIMD for example… :D
ok, on it! I will reply in this thread so you can start contributing.
These have now been pushed!
Code walkthroughs and exercises are included, in Jax
Math, not Maths. You wouldn't called it Econs 101 would you?
We call it Maths & Econs in England actually.
Hey I wouldn't argue with this guy maybe he has a degree in Physic
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.
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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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.
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