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Show HN: Maths, CS and AI Compendium
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often bury good ideas in dense notation, skip the intuition, assume you already know half the material, and get outdated in fast-moving fields like AI.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.
- HenryNdubuaku 8mo agoCode walkthroughs and exercises are included, in Jax
- reactordev 8mo agoIt would be nice if the unfinished sections had at least an outline so others could fill in the gaps. SIMD for example… :D
- HenryNdubuaku 8mo agook, on it! I will reply in this thread so you can start contributing.
- HenryNdubuaku 8mo agoThese have now been pushed!
- hearsathought 8mo ago[flagged]
- nimonian 8mo agoFor 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.
- hearsathought 8mo ago[flagged]
- HenryNdubuaku 8mo agoWe call it Maths & Econs in England actually.
- nimonian 8mo agoHey I wouldn't argue with this guy maybe he has a degree in Physic
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- hearsathought 8mo ago[flagged]
- cobbal 8mo agoIt'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.
- barfiure 8mo agoAlso 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.
- riolet_vose 8mo agoAnother suggestion - Do append authoritative resources for further deep dive into sub topics/concepts. I'm sure a sliver of the reading audience would love that feature, myself included. Thank you for your generosity & hope to see this repo get enough traction & contributors to fill all the sections.
- HenryNdubuaku 8mo agothanks! will do
- alienreborn 8mo agoThank you for sharing. Is there a gitbook link?
- HenryNdubuaku 8mo agoWill look into this!
- jacobmarble 8mo agoYeah I’d love to study through a simple website, I guess that’s gitbook? I haven’t used it before. To the OP: Do you need help generating a little static website? I did this with Claude the other day, could figure it out for you repo for sure.
- jacobmarble 8mo agoI’ve read chapter 1. 10/10
- HenryNdubuaku 8mo agoWhat do you think?!
- jacobmarble 8mo agoSo good! I got a math minor with my CS major 15 years ago, and just started sending applications to MS CS ML/AI programs. I really need this now to relearn linear algebra etc, and your site is really bringing things back quickly. I’m not doing the coding exercises (yet), that’s just me for now, no feedback there. I did have some feedback when I was reading last night, will send a PR when I have time. Kudos, friend!
- nickel0800 8mo agoI started a BSc in maths at Open University, I think this will go very well along with that degree. Thank you for all your hard work.