Show HN: Maths, CS and AI Compendium (github.com)
41 points by HenryNdubuaku 7 hours ago
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often bury good ideas in dense notation, skip the intuition, assume you already know half the material, and get outdated in fast-moving fields like AI.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.
barfiure an hour ago
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.
reactordev 3 hours ago
It would be nice if the unfinished sections had at least an outline so others could fill in the gaps. SIMD for example… :D
HenryNdubuaku 3 hours ago
ok, on it! I will reply in this thread so you can start contributing.
HenryNdubuaku 2 hours ago
These have now been pushed!
HenryNdubuaku 4 hours ago
Code walkthroughs and exercises are included, in Jax
hearsathought 3 hours ago
Math, not Maths. You wouldn't called it Econs 101 would you?
HenryNdubuaku 2 hours ago
We call it Maths & Econs in England actually.
nimonian 2 hours ago
Hey I wouldn't argue with this guy maybe he has a degree in Physic
hearsathought an hour ago
QuadmasterXLII 25 minutes ago
A prescriptivist in the wild!
nimonian 2 hours ago
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.