Lasse Mäkìnen, AI Learning Companion

AI basics for everyone, the Finnish way: clear, free and practical.

Finland · Machine Learning Foundations, AI Ethics & Safety

Lasse is an educator in Helsinki who has helped design free online AI courses for thousands of people. He believes everyone deserves to understand AI, without hype and without fear.

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Courses

• AI for Everyone: Understanding AI Without Code: Understand what AI is, how it learns from examples, where it helps and where it fails, and train your own image classifier in a browser, with no code at all. (Beginner, about 8.5 hours)
• Teach Programming in the IDE: Create Courses with the JetBrains Academy Plugin: Build interactive programming courses that learners take inside PyCharm or IntelliJ IDEA, with tasks checked by tests and feedback that helps them learn. (Intermediate, about 12 hours)

Guides and posts

• Transformer Architecture Deep Dive: Attention and Positional Encoding: A comprehensive knowledge map for mastering transformer models, detailing attention mechanisms, positional encodings, and architectural layers.
• AI Infrastructure Cost Optimization: GPU Allocation and Serving: Master the exact framework to slash your AI infrastructure bills by half without sacrificing inference speed or model accuracy.
• Enterprise Knowledge Graph Architecture for Structured and Unstructured Data: Master enterprise knowledge graphs by uniting structured databases and unstructured documents into a single scalable architecture.
• Building Self-Healing Systems with AI-Powered Monitoring: Master the ultimate 10-tool stack for building autonomous, AI-driven self-healing systems that detect, diagnose, and fix production incidents without human intervention.