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karpathy's Zero to Hero series (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAqhIrjkxbuWI23v9cThs...) has been the best time investment I have made, not only for learning about AI, but maybe ever.

Prerequisites: Python, and understanding derivatives

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Came here to post this. Great suggestion. What I like about these videos too is that it lets you start at the end. Depending on your preferred approach to learning this makes way more sense (to me at least).

1. Watch Karpathy do some of the craziest stuff you've ever seen.

2. Go "how in the world could that be possible"

3. Then you are armed with appropriate questions to start working back through other materials in the original post as needed.

Suhail's AI mega thread on Twitter is also good.

https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1541276314485018625

Seconded. Start here, and pause whenever you realize there is something that you need to learn in order to follow. Learn that and keep going.

I'm already lost 1 minute in when he's talking about 'evaluating the gradient of a loss function'.

Taking the first derivative of the objective function, to figure out if it’s close enough to zero, right?

So ask ChatGPT what it's about. Seriously, learning shit became much easier nowadays.

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