AI by Hand

(byhand.ai)

285 points | by sans_souse 16 hours ago

12 comments

  • vivzkestrel 2 hours ago
    - 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

    • iamnotarobotman 12 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 14 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 14 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 13 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 14 hours ago
              Click "Later->" to bypass subscribe.
              • kevincox 7 hours ago
                I clicked "Back" to leave the user-hostile website.
                • arcfour 5 hours ago
                  Yes. Convince me why your site is worth my attention, don't try to force it through a dark pattern and then try to justify why I should waste my time figuring it out.
                • dominotw 14 hours ago
                  dont see later
                  • PTOB 10 hours ago
                    Eventually, none of us do.
              • slowin 9 hours 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 13 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 12 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.
                • copperx 13 hours ago
                  My professor used this "by hand" technique when teaching quantum computation algorithms, so I have a soft spot for it.
                • ThunderousVoid 10 hours ago
                  I’d say bad UX design. It may or may not be something good behind the door. But why do I enter?
                  • AdieuToLogic 6 hours ago
                    See also:

                      Foundations of Large Language Models[0]
                    
                    0 - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.09223v2
                    • Damjanski 13 hours ago
                      this is sick!
                      • anthropic-dario 31 minutes ago
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