Foundations
This phase should deliver a portfolio artifact you can show:
- Neural nets
- Backprop
- Optimization
Modern
This phase should deliver a portfolio artifact you can show:
- CNNs
- RNN/LSTM
- Transformers
- Diffusion
Production
This phase should deliver a portfolio artifact you can show:
- Training at scale
- Distillation
- Quantization
Weekly cadence
How to structure each week:
- 3-4 focused study blocks
- 1 project checkpoint
- 1 hour of review + notes
- One community post or share
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