AI by Hand ✍️: Who It's For and Who Sponsors It

Covers: Math, algorithms, and neural network architectures worked out by hand and in Excel, including RNNs and language models.
For: Machine learning engineers, AI researchers, and students seeking foundational technical understanding.
Best for: Technical professionals who want to understand AI architecture mechanics from first principles.
Skip if: Non-technical business executives looking for high-level AI strategy or market analysis.

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RNNs by Hand, in Excel: Explains foundational concepts behind recurrent neural networks for staying at the AI frontier.
Seq2Seq: Demonstrates how sequence-to-sequence networks transform one input sequence into another.
Small Language Model: Walks through an end-to-end small language model example with all components in place.

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