All Episodes
Clawdemy Lessons — 268 episodes
Memory and reflection, in brief
Orchestration and shared state, in brief
The capstone, in brief
How an agent fetches its own data, in brief
The bull and the bear, in brief
The risk gate, in brief
The trader, in brief
Why split one AI into many, in brief
AI-authored commits and PRs: brief
Git branches, in brief
Cherry-pick and stash: brief
Commit hygiene, in brief
Merge conflicts: brief
Multi-agent integration patterns: brief
Pull requests, in brief
Rebase, deeper: brief
Releases and tags: brief
Remotes and forks: brief
Git team workflows, in brief
The future of git in an AI world, in brief
Undoing things in git: brief
Why git exists: brief
Worktrees and parallel agents, in brief
Your first repo: brief
API keys and OAuth: brief
CostGuard and privacy: brief
First conversation and model picker: brief
Clawless memory system: brief
AI governance, in brief
AI safety as a field: brief
Beneficial AI and machine ethics, in brief
Multi-agent AI collective action: brief
Complex systems and emergent risk: brief
Four catastrophic AI risks: brief
Monitoring and robustness, in brief
Safety engineering, in brief
The alignment problem: brief
Shipping a Claude application: brief
Subagents and Claude Managed Agents: brief
Deep RL open problems: brief
Exploration strategies: brief
Multi-task RL and meta-RL: brief
Offline RL algorithms: brief
Offline RL: brief
Diffusion models II: brief
Score-based diffusion via SDEs: brief
Four-paradigm landscape, in brief
Agent Skills and Claude Code: brief
Single call to agent loop, in brief
Model Context Protocol, in brief
Prompt caching and context management, in brief
Six effective-agent patterns: brief
Choosing your model and the effort dial, in brief
Server-side tools and built-ins, in brief
Messages API in production: brief
Tool use, in brief
Your first Claude API call: brief
Securing agents, in brief
Multimodal agents in production, in brief
Where multimodal AI is going, in brief
Data filtering and deduplication: brief
LLM data sources, part 1: brief
Language model evaluation: brief
GPUs and TPUs: brief
Inference: brief
Kernels, Triton and XLA: brief
Parallelism, in brief
Post-training, SFT and RLHF: brief
Reasoning and RLVR, in brief
Scaling laws, in brief
Bias-variance tradeoff: brief
Classification metrics: brief
Train, test, cross-validation: brief
PCA, in brief
t-SNE: brief
Recovering 3D vision, in brief
CNN architectures, in brief
Convolution and CNNs: brief
Detection, segmentation, visualization: brief
Diffusion models: brief
GANs and VAEs: brief
Human-centered computer vision, in brief
Linear classifiers, in brief
Loss and optimization: brief
Neural networks and backprop: brief
Self-supervised vision, in brief
Sequence tools for vision: brief
Video understanding: brief
Vision and language: brief
World modeling: brief
Actor-critic methods: brief
Control as inference: brief
DQN (replay, target, double-Q): brief
Imitation learning, in brief
Deep reinforcement learning, in brief
Model-based RL, in brief
Planning with a learned model: brief
Policy gradients (REINFORCE): brief
PPO clipped surrogate: brief
RL fundamentals: brief
RLHF pipeline: brief
Value-based RL, in brief
Variational inference for RL: brief
Autoregressive models: brief
Diffusion models I: brief
Energy-based models, in brief
Evaluating generative models: brief
GANs, the minimax game: brief
Latent variables and the ELBO: brief
Maximum likelihood and the KL view: brief
Normalizing flows: brief
Score matching, in brief
VAE reparameterization trick, in brief
WGAN-GP and Wasserstein loss, in brief
Generative model paradigms: brief
LLM agents: brief
Augmented language models: brief
Industry perspective, in brief
Launch an LLM app, in brief
LLM foundations: brief
LLMOps, in brief
Project walkthrough: brief
Prompt engineering: brief
Training your own LLM, in brief
UX for language user interfaces: brief
LLM landscape in motion: brief
Large multimodal models, in brief
JEPA and world modeling: brief
Multimodal world models for science: brief
Native multimodal intelligence, in brief
Reasoning over multimodal inputs: brief
Transformers for video generation, in brief
Diffusion image generation: brief
Multimodal AI: brief
Function approximation: brief
Markov Decision Processes: brief
Monte Carlo prediction, in brief
Policy gradient and modern RL, in brief
Policy iteration: brief
Q-learning, in brief
Temporal-difference learning, in brief
Value functions and Bellman: brief
Value iteration: brief
Reinforcement learning, in brief
Higher-order derivatives: brief
Taylor series: brief
Attention alternatives and MoE: brief
Counting the cost: brief
From scratch and the tokenizer: brief
The Transformer architecture: brief
Boosting: brief
Decision trees, in brief
Linear regression: brief
Hierarchical clustering: brief
Gradient descent, in brief
k-means clustering, in brief
Logistic regression: brief
Random forests, in brief
Support vector machines: brief
Machine learning, in brief
Why seeing is hard: brief
Backpropagation, in brief
Gradient descent: brief
Neurons and layers, in brief
Neural networks recap: brief
The cost landscape: brief
The whole network as one function: brief
Weights and biases, in brief
Backpropagation: brief
What learning really means, in brief
Build and share a demo, in brief
Curating datasets: brief
Debug your training: brief
Fine-tune a pretrained model: brief
Fine-tuning LLMs, in brief
Reasoning models, in brief
Run a model in a few lines: brief
Share on the Hub: brief
The main NLP tasks: brief
Tokenizers up close: brief
Wrangling data with Datasets: brief
Bayes' theorem: brief
Conditional probability, in brief
Confidence intervals, in brief
Hypothesis testing and p-values: brief
Probability foundations: brief
Random variables and expected value: brief
Sampling and the central limit theorem: brief
Statistics in machine learning, in brief
Summarizing data, in brief
The binomial distribution: brief
Normal distribution: brief
Data distributions and histograms, in brief
Correlation, in brief
Why AI runs on statistics: brief
The chain rule: brief
The essence of calculus: brief
Implicit differentiation: brief
Integration and the fundamental theorem, in brief
Limits and L'Hopital's rule: brief
The power rule from geometry: brief
The product rule, in brief
The derivative as a rate, in brief
Trig derivatives from geometry: brief
Why area equals slope: brief
Why e is special: brief
3D cross product via duality: brief
Stepping up to 3D: brief
Abstract vector spaces, in brief
Change of basis, in brief
Cramer's rule: brief
Cross products: brief
The determinant: brief
Dot products: brief
Eigenvectors and eigenvalues: brief
Matrix inverse and null space: brief
Linear transformations: brief
Matrix multiplication: brief
Matrices between dimensions: brief
Spans and basis, in brief
What vectors are: brief
What transformers do: brief
Agentic RAG, in brief
Building trustworthy agents, in brief
Choosing an agent framework: brief
Giving agents memory: brief
Tool use: brief
Agents that self-check: brief
Multi-agent systems, in brief
Planning: breaking a goal, in brief
Tool-use design pattern, in brief
What makes an AI an 'agent': brief
The handwritten-digit problem: brief
BERT architecture, in brief
BERT pretraining and fine-tuning, in brief
Chain-of-thought prompting, in brief
Agent loops, in brief
Function calling, in brief
How models know word order: brief
Reasoning models, in brief
LLM-as-a-Judge: brief
Few-shot prompting, in brief
Speculative decoding and diffusion LLMs: brief
RLHF and DPO: brief
Transformers beyond text: brief
AI safety threads, in brief
Why benchmarks can mislead, in brief
Why tool-using models fail, in brief
Preferences into reward signals: brief
Pretraining, in brief
Parallelism and Flash Attention: brief
Quantization and mixed precision, in brief
Scaling laws and Chinchilla, in brief
Attention efficiency, in brief
DistilBERT and RoBERTa, in brief
Encoder-decoder, T5, span corruption: brief
How prompting works, in brief
How RAG works, in brief
LayerNorm, pre-norm, RMSNorm: brief
RoPE position embeddings: brief
Instruction tuning (SFT), in brief
How a transformer generates text: brief
Multi-head attention, in brief
The transformer block, in brief
Embeddings: word vectors, in brief
Tokenization, in brief
Self-attention, in brief
AI won't replace you, in brief