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Clawdemy Lessons — 268 episodes

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Memory and reflection, in brief

2

Orchestration and shared state, in brief

3

The capstone, in brief

4

How an agent fetches its own data, in brief

5

The bull and the bear, in brief

6

The risk gate, in brief

7

The trader, in brief

8

Why split one AI into many, in brief

9

AI-authored commits and PRs: brief

10

Git branches, in brief

11

Cherry-pick and stash: brief

12

Commit hygiene, in brief

13

Merge conflicts: brief

14

Multi-agent integration patterns: brief

15

Pull requests, in brief

16

Rebase, deeper: brief

17

Releases and tags: brief

18

Remotes and forks: brief

19

Git team workflows, in brief

20

The future of git in an AI world, in brief

21

Undoing things in git: brief

22

Why git exists: brief

23

Worktrees and parallel agents, in brief

24

Your first repo: brief

25

API keys and OAuth: brief

26

CostGuard and privacy: brief

27

First conversation and model picker: brief

28

Clawless memory system: brief

29

AI governance, in brief

30

AI safety as a field: brief

31

Beneficial AI and machine ethics, in brief

32

Multi-agent AI collective action: brief

33

Complex systems and emergent risk: brief

34

Four catastrophic AI risks: brief

35

Monitoring and robustness, in brief

36

Safety engineering, in brief

37

The alignment problem: brief

38

Shipping a Claude application: brief

39

Subagents and Claude Managed Agents: brief

40

Deep RL open problems: brief

41

Exploration strategies: brief

42

Multi-task RL and meta-RL: brief

43

Offline RL algorithms: brief

44

Offline RL: brief

45

Diffusion models II: brief

46

Score-based diffusion via SDEs: brief

47

Four-paradigm landscape, in brief

48

Agent Skills and Claude Code: brief

49

Single call to agent loop, in brief

50

Model Context Protocol, in brief

51

Prompt caching and context management, in brief

52

Six effective-agent patterns: brief

53

Choosing your model and the effort dial, in brief

54

Server-side tools and built-ins, in brief

55

Messages API in production: brief

56

Tool use, in brief

57

Your first Claude API call: brief

58

Securing agents, in brief

59

Multimodal agents in production, in brief

60

Where multimodal AI is going, in brief

61

Data filtering and deduplication: brief

62

LLM data sources, part 1: brief

63

Language model evaluation: brief

64

GPUs and TPUs: brief

65

Inference: brief

66

Kernels, Triton and XLA: brief

67

Parallelism, in brief

68

Post-training, SFT and RLHF: brief

69

Reasoning and RLVR, in brief

70

Scaling laws, in brief

71

Bias-variance tradeoff: brief

72

Classification metrics: brief

73

Train, test, cross-validation: brief

74

PCA, in brief

75

t-SNE: brief

76

Recovering 3D vision, in brief

77

CNN architectures, in brief

78

Convolution and CNNs: brief

79

Detection, segmentation, visualization: brief

80

Diffusion models: brief

81

GANs and VAEs: brief

82

Human-centered computer vision, in brief

83

Linear classifiers, in brief

84

Loss and optimization: brief

85

Neural networks and backprop: brief

86

Self-supervised vision, in brief

87

Sequence tools for vision: brief

88

Video understanding: brief

89

Vision and language: brief

90

World modeling: brief

91

Actor-critic methods: brief

92

Control as inference: brief

93

DQN (replay, target, double-Q): brief

94

Imitation learning, in brief

95

Deep reinforcement learning, in brief

96

Model-based RL, in brief

97

Planning with a learned model: brief

98

Policy gradients (REINFORCE): brief

99

PPO clipped surrogate: brief

100

RL fundamentals: brief

101

RLHF pipeline: brief

102

Value-based RL, in brief

103

Variational inference for RL: brief

104

Autoregressive models: brief

105

Diffusion models I: brief

106

Energy-based models, in brief

107

Evaluating generative models: brief

108

GANs, the minimax game: brief

109

Latent variables and the ELBO: brief

110

Maximum likelihood and the KL view: brief

111

Normalizing flows: brief

112

Score matching, in brief

113

VAE reparameterization trick, in brief

114

WGAN-GP and Wasserstein loss, in brief

115

Generative model paradigms: brief

116

LLM agents: brief

117

Augmented language models: brief

118

Industry perspective, in brief

119

Launch an LLM app, in brief

120

LLM foundations: brief

121

LLMOps, in brief

122

Project walkthrough: brief

123

Prompt engineering: brief

124

Training your own LLM, in brief

125

UX for language user interfaces: brief

126

LLM landscape in motion: brief

127

Large multimodal models, in brief

128

JEPA and world modeling: brief

129

Multimodal world models for science: brief

130

Native multimodal intelligence, in brief

131

Reasoning over multimodal inputs: brief

132

Transformers for video generation, in brief

133

Diffusion image generation: brief

134

Multimodal AI: brief

135

Function approximation: brief

136

Markov Decision Processes: brief

137

Monte Carlo prediction, in brief

138

Policy gradient and modern RL, in brief

139

Policy iteration: brief

140

Q-learning, in brief

141

Temporal-difference learning, in brief

142

Value functions and Bellman: brief

143

Value iteration: brief

144

Reinforcement learning, in brief

145

Higher-order derivatives: brief

146

Taylor series: brief

147

Attention alternatives and MoE: brief

148

Counting the cost: brief

149

From scratch and the tokenizer: brief

150

The Transformer architecture: brief

151

Boosting: brief

152

Decision trees, in brief

153

Linear regression: brief

154

Hierarchical clustering: brief

155

Gradient descent, in brief

156

k-means clustering, in brief

157

Logistic regression: brief

158

Random forests, in brief

159

Support vector machines: brief

160

Machine learning, in brief

161

Why seeing is hard: brief

162

Backpropagation, in brief

163

Gradient descent: brief

164

Neurons and layers, in brief

165

Neural networks recap: brief

166

The cost landscape: brief

167

The whole network as one function: brief

168

Weights and biases, in brief

169

Backpropagation: brief

170

What learning really means, in brief

171

Build and share a demo, in brief

172

Curating datasets: brief

173

Debug your training: brief

174

Fine-tune a pretrained model: brief

175

Fine-tuning LLMs, in brief

176

Reasoning models, in brief

177

Run a model in a few lines: brief

178

Share on the Hub: brief

179

The main NLP tasks: brief

180

Tokenizers up close: brief

181

Wrangling data with Datasets: brief

182

Bayes' theorem: brief

183

Conditional probability, in brief

184

Confidence intervals, in brief

185

Hypothesis testing and p-values: brief

186

Probability foundations: brief

187

Random variables and expected value: brief

188

Sampling and the central limit theorem: brief

189

Statistics in machine learning, in brief

190

Summarizing data, in brief

191

The binomial distribution: brief

192

Normal distribution: brief

193

Data distributions and histograms, in brief

194

Correlation, in brief

195

Why AI runs on statistics: brief

196

The chain rule: brief

197

The essence of calculus: brief

198

Implicit differentiation: brief

199

Integration and the fundamental theorem, in brief

200

Limits and L'Hopital's rule: brief

201

The power rule from geometry: brief

202

The product rule, in brief

203

The derivative as a rate, in brief

204

Trig derivatives from geometry: brief

205

Why area equals slope: brief

206

Why e is special: brief

207

3D cross product via duality: brief

208

Stepping up to 3D: brief

209

Abstract vector spaces, in brief

210

Change of basis, in brief

211

Cramer's rule: brief

212

Cross products: brief

213

The determinant: brief

214

Dot products: brief

215

Eigenvectors and eigenvalues: brief

216

Matrix inverse and null space: brief

217

Linear transformations: brief

218

Matrix multiplication: brief

219

Matrices between dimensions: brief

220

Spans and basis, in brief

221

What vectors are: brief

222

What transformers do: brief

223

Agentic RAG, in brief

224

Building trustworthy agents, in brief

225

Choosing an agent framework: brief

226

Giving agents memory: brief

227

Tool use: brief

228

Agents that self-check: brief

229

Multi-agent systems, in brief

230

Planning: breaking a goal, in brief

231

Tool-use design pattern, in brief

232

What makes an AI an 'agent': brief

233

The handwritten-digit problem: brief

234

BERT architecture, in brief

235

BERT pretraining and fine-tuning, in brief

236

Chain-of-thought prompting, in brief

237

Agent loops, in brief

238

Function calling, in brief

239

How models know word order: brief

240

Reasoning models, in brief

241

LLM-as-a-Judge: brief

242

Few-shot prompting, in brief

243

Speculative decoding and diffusion LLMs: brief

244

RLHF and DPO: brief

245

Transformers beyond text: brief

246

AI safety threads, in brief

247

Why benchmarks can mislead, in brief

248

Why tool-using models fail, in brief

249

Preferences into reward signals: brief

250

Pretraining, in brief

251

Parallelism and Flash Attention: brief

252

Quantization and mixed precision, in brief

253

Scaling laws and Chinchilla, in brief

254

Attention efficiency, in brief

255

DistilBERT and RoBERTa, in brief

256

Encoder-decoder, T5, span corruption: brief

257

How prompting works, in brief

258

How RAG works, in brief

259

LayerNorm, pre-norm, RMSNorm: brief

260

RoPE position embeddings: brief

261

Instruction tuning (SFT), in brief

262

How a transformer generates text: brief

263

Multi-head attention, in brief

264

The transformer block, in brief

265

Embeddings: word vectors, in brief

266

Tokenization, in brief

267

Self-attention, in brief

268

AI won't replace you, in brief