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# Foundations for beginner learners

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553 resources · page 16 of 18

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### [Vicki Boykis (@vboykis)](/foundations/practitioner-overviews/vicki-boykis-vboykis/index.md)

Creator not supplied; see original source.

Vicki Boykis' blog: technical explanations of embeddings, ML engineering and LLM tooling.

Not applicable (entity) · unknown · unknown resource · en 

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### [VinAI](/foundations/llm-fundamentals/vinai/index.md)

Creator not supplied; see original source.

VinAI site: Vietnamese company doing AI research and building applied AI products.

Not applicable (entity) · unknown · unknown resource · en 

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### [Vincent Warmerdam (@fishnets88)](/foundations/practitioner-overviews/vincent-warmerdam-fishnets88/index.md)

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Vincent Warmerdam's calmcode: short video lessons on Python tools and data science.

Not applicable (entity) · unknown · unknown resource · en 

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### [DL in NLP (@dlinnlp)](/foundations/practitioner-overviews/vlad-lialin-dl-in-nlp/index.md)

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DL in NLP Telegram channel by Vlad Lialin: Russian-language news and paper reviews on natural language processing.

Not applicable (entity) · unknown · unknown resource · ru 

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### [Vukosi Marivate (@vukosi)](/foundations/practitioner-overviews/vukosi-marivate-vukosi/index.md)

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Vukosi Marivate's site: researcher on African-language NLP and data science, co-founder of Masakhane.

Not applicable (entity) · unknown · unknown resource · en 

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### [@vukosi (Vukosi Marivate)](/foundations/practitioner-overviews/vukosi-vukosi-marivate/index.md)

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X account of Vukosi Marivate, University of Pretoria and Masakhane co-founder: posts on African language NLP.

Not applicable (entity) · unknown · unknown resource · en 

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### [WGA: AI provisions of the 2023 MBA](/foundations/llm-fundamentals/wga-ai-provisions-of-the-2023-mba/index.md)

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WGA page on artificial intelligence provisions in the 2023 Minimum Basic Agreement.

Not applicable (entity) · unknown · unknown resource · en 

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### [Will Brown (@willccbb)](/foundations/practitioner-overviews/will-brown-willccbb/index.md)

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verifiers GitHub repo (Will Brown, Prime Intellect): library for RL environments and evaluations for LLMs.

Not applicable (entity) · unknown · unknown resource · en 

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### [Wing Lian (@winglian)](/foundations/practitioner-overviews/wing-lian-winglian/index.md)

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Axolotl GitHub repo, led by Wing Lian: open-source tool for fine-tuning LLMs with many methods.

Not applicable (entity) · unknown · unknown resource · en 

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### [X recommendation algorithm](/foundations/llm-fundamentals/x-recommendation-algorithm/index.md)

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twitter the-algorithm GitHub repo: source code of the X recommendation algorithm services.

Not applicable (entity) · unknown · unknown resource · en 

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### [@xai (xAI)](/foundations/practitioner-overviews/xai-xai/index.md)

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X account of xAI: official Grok model and company announcements.

Not applicable (entity) · unknown · unknown resource · und 

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### [XGBoost Documentation](/foundations/llm-fundamentals/xgboost-non-nn-baseline/index.md)

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XGBoost documentation: distributed gradient boosting library, a standard non-neural baseline for tabular data.

Not applicable (entity) · unknown · unknown resource · en 

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### [ngxson GitHub profile (Xuan-Son Nguyen)](/foundations/practitioner-overviews/xuan-son-nguyen-ngxson/index.md)

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Xuan-Son Nguyen's GitHub profile: llama.cpp server and multimodal contributions.

Not applicable (entity) · unknown · unknown resource · en 

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### [@yandex (Яндекс)](/foundations/practitioner-overviews/yandex/index.md)

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X account of Yandex: Russian-language company news including AI products.

Not applicable (entity) · unknown · unknown resource · und 

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### [@ylecun (Yann LeCun)](/foundations/practitioner-overviews/yann-lecun-ylecun/index.md)

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X account of Yann LeCun, executive chairman of AMI Labs: posts on world models and AI research.

Not applicable (entity) · unknown · unknown resource · en|fr 

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### [Yann LeCun (@ylecun)](/foundations/practitioner-overviews/yann-lecun-ylecun-2/index.md)

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AMI Labs site associated with Yann LeCun, currently a launch placeholder with an email signup.

Not applicable (entity) · unknown · unknown resource · en|fr 

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### [Yao Fu (@Francis_YAO_)](/foundations/practitioner-overviews/yao-fu-francis-yao/index.md)

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Yao Fu's Notion site with papers and technical notes on LLM reasoning and long context.

Not applicable (entity) · unknown · unknown resource · en 

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### [sglang](/foundations/practitioner-overviews/ying-sheng-handle-unconfirmed/index.md)

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SGLang GitHub repo, co-led by Ying Sheng: serving framework for large language and vision models.

Not applicable (entity) · unknown · unknown resource · en 

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### [@yoavgo (Yoav Goldberg)](/foundations/practitioner-overviews/yoav-goldberg-yoavgo/index.md)

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X account of Yoav Goldberg, Bar-Ilan professor and author of a neural NLP primer: posts on NLP and LLMs.

Not applicable (entity) · unknown · unknown resource · en 

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### [Yoshua Bengio (@Yoshua_Bengio)](/foundations/practitioner-overviews/yoshua-bengio-yoshua-bengio/index.md)

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Yoshua Bengio's site: Université de Montréal professor and LawZero scientific director, with writing on AI safety.

Not applicable (entity) · unknown · unknown resource · en|fr 

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### [Matsuo-Iwasawa Lab (University of Tokyo)](/foundations/practitioner-overviews/yutaka-matsuo-state-role/index.md)

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Matsuo-Iwasawa Laboratory (University of Tokyo) Japanese site, led by Yutaka Matsuo, Japan government AI strategy adviser.

Not applicable (entity) · unknown · unknown resource · ja 

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### [Zenn](/foundations/practitioner-overviews/zenn/index.md)

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Zenn: Japanese platform where engineers publish technical articles and books, including many on LLMs and AI tooling.

Not applicable (entity) · unknown · unknown resource · ja 

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### [Zhihong Shao (DeepSeek)](/foundations/practitioner-overviews/zhihong-shao-deepseek/index.md)

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DeepSeekMath paper (2024), first-authored by Zhihong Shao, which introduced the GRPO algorithm.

Not applicable (entity) · unknown · unknown resource · en 

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### [知乎 Zhihu (AI columns)](/foundations/practitioner-overviews/zhihu-ai-columns/index.md)

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Zhihu: Chinese question-and-answer and article platform where Chinese AI engineers publish technical analyses.

Not applicable (entity) · unknown · unknown resource · zh 

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### [Zhu Jun 朱军](/foundations/practitioner-overviews/zhu-jun/index.md)

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Zhu Jun's Tsinghua homepage: ML professor and co-founder of Shengshu, developer of the Vidu video model.

Not applicable (entity) · unknown · unknown resource · zh|en 

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### [Zindi (community)](/foundations/practitioner-overviews/zindi-2/index.md)

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Zindi Africa: data-science competition platform with AI challenges and a community of African practitioners.

Not applicable (entity) · unknown · unknown resource · en|fr 

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### [Zvi Mowshowitz (@TheZvi)](/foundations/practitioner-overviews/zvi-mowshowitz-thezvi/index.md)

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Zvi Mowshowitz's Don't Worry About the Vase: weekly roundups and analysis of AI developments and safety.

Not applicable (entity) · unknown · unknown resource · en 

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### [3Blue1Brown Neural Networks](/foundations/llm-fundamentals/3blue1brown-neural-networks/index.md)

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3Blue1Brown neural networks series: visual video lessons explaining neural networks, backpropagation and transformers.

Beginner · unknown · unknown resource · en 

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### [ai.gov.ru: National portal for artificial intelligence](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/ai-gov-ru-russian-national-ai-portal/index.md)

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Russia's national AI portal with the national AI strategy, Code of Ethics and government AI programmes.

Beginner · unknown · unknown resource · ru 

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### [AIAAIC Repository](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/aiaaic-repository/index.md)

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AIAAIC Repository: independent register of AI incidents and controversies with case entries.

Beginner · unknown · unknown resource · en 

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### [Alex Ziskind (@digitalix)](/foundations/practitioner-overviews/alex-ziskind-digitalix/index.md)

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Alex Ziskind's YouTube channel: benchmarks of local LLMs on Macs and other consumer hardware.

Beginner–Intermediate · unknown · unknown resource · en 

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### [An Introduction to Statistical Learning](/foundations/llm-fundamentals/an-introduction-to-statistical-learning/index.md)

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Author site for An Introduction to Statistical Learning, with free PDF and labs in R and Python.

Beginner · unknown · unknown resource · en 

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