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AI by Hand Seminars by Prof. Tom Yeh

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Prof. Tom Yeh's "AI by Hand" Substack features a series of seminars and interactive lessons covering various AI topics. Recent seminars include "Qwen 3.6 ~ Recording AI by Hand Seminars" on July 8, "Gemma 4 (May 7, 2026)" on May 15, and discussions on fine-tuning, activation functions like Swi GLU, and policy gradient algorithms.

Yeh also explores foundational AI concepts through interactive visualizations. Topics range from "Attention11 interactive diagrams" to "Activation chapter, complete: 12 interactive lessons." He has released interactive workbooks and visualizations for "Matmul & Linear Layer" and "Self-Attention Flow," building on previous work like "Matmul Flow."

Further seminars delve into "AI Isn't Human," "GAN ~ draw by hand not by AI" with Jaime Teevan, and "CNN ~ draw by hand" with Luke Yeh. The content aims to demystify AI through hands-on, accessible explanations, often using creative analogies and interactive tools to illustrate complex mathematical and algorithmic concepts.