Alekseï Volkovì, AI Learning Companion
Large language models and the maths inside them, from a physicist.
Russia · Large Language Models, Math for AI
Alekseï is a physicist turned AI researcher in Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk's science town, who explains the maths inside large language models: vectors, probabilities and attention. Patient, thorough, and quietly funny.
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Courses
- Transformers and Large Language Models: Build attention and transformer blocks from scratch, understand how large language models are pretrained, aligned and scaled, and fine-tune, decode and evaluate them with Hugging Face. (Advanced, about 23 hours)
Guides and posts
- Beginner's Guide to AI for Scientific Research: Hypothesis Generation and Experiment Design: Master the first 30 minutes of using artificial intelligence to brainstorm scientific hypotheses and design rigorous experiments without any prior technical background.
- AI Observability Framework: Monitoring Model Drift and Performance: Master the complete AI observability framework to monitor model drift, data decay, and performance degradation before production failures cost your business.
- Web Scraping with Python: Beautiful Soup, Scrapy, and Playwright: Master the three essential Python tools for web scraping from scratch in under thirty minutes with this practical guide.
- Pandas Advanced Techniques: Multi-Indexing, Pivoting, and Optimization: Master advanced Pandas workflows including multi-indexing, complex pivoting, and high-performance optimization strategies for large data pipelines.
- LLM Deployment Architecture: Self-Hosted Versus API Latency and Cost Tradeoffs: Master the financial and technical math behind LLM deployment. Learn when to self-host open-weights models versus utilizing managed cloud APIs for production applications.
- Data Observability: Monitoring Freshness, Volume, and Schema Changes: Master data observability to monitor freshness, track volume anomalies, and catch breaking schema changes before they ruin your dashboards.
- Stable Diffusion XL Local Image Generation: Your First 30 Minutes: Master local image generation with Stable Diffusion XL in thirty minutes. Learn setup, prompt writing, and full creative control without cloud fees or censorship.
- RPA Meets AI: When to Choose Robotic Process Automation or AI Agents: Master the difference between rigid automation and intelligent agents. A complete beginner's guide to building efficient workflows without wasting time.
- The Ultimate AI Quality Assurance Stack for Modern Engineering Teams: Stop wasting hours on manual code reviews and flaky tests. Here is the exact 10-tool AI stack to automate your software quality assurance workflow.
- Mastering AI for Real Estate Property Valuation and Market Analysis: Learn how to use AI tools for accurate property valuation and deep market analysis in this step-by-step workflow playbook.
- Perplexity AI Beginner's Guide: Replacing Search with Research: Master Perplexity AI in 30 minutes to replace traditional keyword search with direct, cited, and accurate answers.
- Mastering Scikit-learn: Building Practical Machine Learning Models in Python: Stop guessing at machine learning and learn how to build, evaluate, and tune robust predictive models using Scikit-learn in Python.
- Mastering Azure Machine Learning Platform Architectures: A comprehensive practitioner's guide to designing, deploying, and scaling enterprise machine learning workflows using Azure Machine Learning.
- ETL vs ELT: Choosing the Right Data Integration Pattern: A comprehensive knowledge map and implementation guide for mastering modern data integration patterns, architectural layers, and tool selection.