Explore AI applications, infrastructure and systems performance.
From Non-Tech to Tech — Your Guided Path into AI
Start with a familiar problem, build your foundations and test a small project. This beginner pathway is separate from the nine specialist programs below.
For: Beginners, career switchers and professionals exploring AI. The team can help identify a starting point from your background.
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One practical problem. Trace the system. Test your understanding.
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Nine specialist programs. Explore a pathway. Build a project. Understand the system.
Build assistants that work with knowledge and tools.
Read Articles →Retrieval · Agents · Evaluation
Project example · A document assistant with references and controlled actions.
Prerequisites: request current requirements.
Design the infrastructure behind AI workloads.
Read Articles →GPU clusters · Networking · Operations
Project example · A cluster architecture with a workload and operations plan.
Prerequisites: request current requirements.
Make model serving faster and more efficient.
Read Articles →Inference · Scheduling · Profiling
Project example · A reproducible serving benchmark with documented tradeoffs.
Prerequisites: request current requirements.
Connect what a robot sees to what it does.
Read Articles →Perception · Planning · Control
Project example · A navigation simulation with trajectories and failure cases.
Prerequisites: request current requirements.
Study how feedback shapes an agent’s decisions.
Read Articles →Policies · Rewards · Experiments
Project example · A reproducible policy comparison with an explicit reward rule.
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Build and operate platforms for AI applications.
Read Articles →Containers · Kubernetes · Access controls
Project example · A scoped AI service with monitoring and recovery instructions.
Prerequisites: request current requirements.
Understand how hardware carries out AI computation.
Read Articles →Compute · Memory · Architecture
Project example · An accelerator analysis that explains computation and data movement.
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Make technical decisions across teams and systems.
Read Articles →Architecture · Ownership · Tradeoffs
Project example · An architecture proposal with ownership and decision records.
Prerequisites: request current requirements.
Turn a customer problem into a working system.
Read Articles →Discovery · Integration · Validation
Project example · A customer-workflow prototype with agreed acceptance checks.
Prerequisites: request current requirements.
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The big idea
Agentic AI / The architecture
The model proposes. The system decides what happens next.
Find your starting point
A model learns the pattern. Reality decides whether it generalizes.
Start with: What does it actually mean for a machine to learn?The breakthrough wasn’t more rules. It was learning the representation.
Start with: Simple operations. Learned representations.Words are what we write. Meaning is what the model must discover.
Start with: Before generation, there was representation.Generation made AI impressive. Grounding makes it useful.
Start with: When a Document Assistant Answers Without EvidenceThe model proposes. The system decides what happens next.
Start with: Why an AI Agent Creates the Same Ticket TwicePixels are the input. Understanding is the objective.
Explore the concept map · Articles in preparationConnect the dots
First we taught machines to predict. Then to generate. Now we’re teaching systems to act.
These ideas overlap and coexist. Earlier methods remain useful.
Explore the evolution of AI ↗Ideas worth your attention
Build a versioned release bundle, quality gates, limited rollout, and rollback plan for an AI assistant. Compare task quality alongside latency and failures.
Design a document assistant around authorization, source versions, evidence sufficiency, and citation checks rather than confidence alone.
Design scoped, versioned answer-cache keys and invalidation rules. Learn how stale evidence, permission changes, and concurrent fills affect correctness.
Use a worked queue example to understand overload, admission limits, deadlines, retries, and the difference between offered and successful throughput.
Follow a lost tool response through an agent, policy gate, action ledger, and idempotent service. Learn why a timeout cannot prove an action failed.
Trace demand through an autoscaling controller, provisioning, model startup, and readiness. Calculate the backlog accumulated before new capacity can help.
Under the hood
Follow the information. Understand the decisions. See what changes during learning.
Explore the collections ↗From term counts to embeddings: the choices that determine what a language system can compare.
Follow a signal through a neural network, then follow the error back to understand what training changes.
Understand the Transformer’s central idea, what the original experiments reported, what they did not establish, and why the architecture still matters to engineers.
Separate retrieval from generation to understand where grounded answers succeed—and where they still fail.
Models propose. Tools execute. State remembers. The surrounding system makes the loop useful and accountable.
Architecture
The model is one component. Reliability lives in everything around it.
A reference design that puts source versions, authorization, retrieval quality, and failure handling around generation.
Paper → Product
Start with the idea. Understand what the authors tested. See what the evidence supports. Then go deeper into the original paper.
01Understand the Transformer’s central idea, what the original experiments reported, what they did not establish, and why the architecture still matters to engineers.
Build & experiment
Small, inspectable examples. Explicit assumptions. A baseline you can improve.
01A dependency-free lexical retrieval experiment that makes tokenization, ranking, and limitations easy to inspect.
A little direction goes a long way
Build a mental map before choosing a specialization.
Move from a working model to a dependable service.
Follow the journey from words to contextual representations.
Design around the model, from retrieval to evaluation.
Build systems that act with explicit boundaries.
Understand representations, gradients, and architectures.
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