Learning From Data
Yaser Abu-Mostafa's famed Caltech course on statistical learning theory: Hoeffding's inequality, VC dimension, bias-variance tradeoff, regularization, support vector machines, and neural nets.
Deep learning, language models, reinforcement learning, statistical learning theory, representation learning, and vision.
Complete university lecture courses in ai & machine learning.
Yaser Abu-Mostafa's famed Caltech course on statistical learning theory: Hoeffding's inequality, VC dimension, bias-variance tradeoff, regularization, support vector machines, and neural nets.
From scalar autograd and backpropagation in pure Python up to modern Transformer language models built line-by-line from scratch.
Linear classifiers, computational graphs, backpropagation, convolutional architectures, batch normalization, training dynamics, object detection, semantic segmentation, and generative visual models.
Foundational reinforcement learning course taught by AlphaGo lead researcher David Silver: Markov Decision Processes, Bellman optimality, dynamic programming, Monte Carlo, TD learning, and function approximation.
Imitation learning, policy gradients, actor-critic algorithms, value-function Q-learning, model-based RL, offline reinforcement learning, exploration, and inverse RL.
Research seminar examining self-attention architectures across language modeling, multimodal reasoning, robotics, biology, and scaling laws with leading industry and academic pioneers.
Two complementary ai & ml talks paired around a central intellectual tension.
Does general intelligence emerge directly from unsupervised next-token compression, or does reasoning require explicit world models that plan in latent space?

Self-contained lectures, Nobel addresses, and research colloquia you can watch in one sitting.
Stanford Professor Andrew Ng introduces the foundational course in Machine Learning (CS 229), outlining key topics from statistical pattern recognition to modern applications.
The 2024 Nobel Laureates present their research on the endogenous formation of institutions and their profound impact on long-term economic prosperity and societal development, with particular attention to technology and historical disease environments.
Andrej Karpathy introduces Stanford's CS231n course, providing an overview of convolutional neural networks and their historical context in visual recognition.
This lecture explores cutting-edge research frontiers in deep reinforcement learning, examining advanced problem formulations and methodological approaches. It also addresses crucial aspects of deployment and robust evaluation strategies for complex RL systems.
Yann LeCun examines the fundamental challenges of learning theory in the context of representation learning, presented at the Conference on Learning Theory (COLT) in 2013.
Yasaman Bahri of Google DeepMind discusses the spontaneous emergence of intricate geometric structures in large language models, reflecting the semantic and conceptual organization of natural language.



Neural approximation theorems, optimization dynamics, and relational query engines
MIT · Carnegie Mellon University



Linear geometry, convex duality, statistical learning, and deep optimization
MIT · Stanford University · Caltech +1