Show HN: Maths, CS and AI Compendium

[HenryNdubuaku]

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often bury good ideas in dense notation, skip the intuition, assume you already know half the material, and get outdated in fast-moving fields like AI.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.

[reactordev]

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]

ok, on it! I will reply in this thread so you can start contributing.

[nickel0800]

I started a BSc in maths at Open University, I think this will go very well along with that degree. Thank you for all your hard work.

[HenryNdubuaku]

Code walkthroughs and exercises are included, in Jax

[alienreborn]

Thank you for sharing. Is there a gitbook link?

[jacobmarble]

Yeah I’d love to study through a simple website, I guess that’s gitbook? I haven’t used it before.

To the OP: Do you need help generating a little static website? I did this with Claude the other day, could figure it out for you repo for sure.

[HenryNdubuaku]

Will look into this!

[jacobmarble]

I’ve read chapter 1. 10/10

[HenryNdubuaku]

What do you think?!

[riolet_vose]

Another suggestion - Do append authoritative resources for further deep dive into sub topics/concepts. I'm sure a sliver of the reading audience would love that feature, myself included. Thank you for your generosity & hope to see this repo get enough traction & contributors to fill all the sections.

[HenryNdubuaku]

thanks! will do

[barfiure]

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.

[HenryNdubuaku]

We call it Maths & Econs in England actually.

[dang]

Please don't do this here.

[QuadmasterXLII]

A prescriptivist in the wild!

[nimonian]

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.