ML Quest
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Across the straitAct II: Beyond the Vault
Region 0Awakening Workshop
What machine learning is
- Boot Sequence
- Fruit Sorter
Region 1Function Forest
Functions, knobs and graphs
- Function Machines
- Curves and Knobs
Region 2Vector Valley
Arrows, lists of numbers, and how alike two things are
- Arrows
- Adding & Comparing
Region 3Matrix Mines
Grids that stretch and turn space
- Stretching Space
- Squash and Flip
Region 4Slope Summit
Slopes, gradients and the chain rule
- Zooming In
- The Gradient
Region 5Descent Caves
Finding the lowest point, one step at a time
- Rolling Downhill
Region 6Chance Harbor
Probability, and how sure to be
- Coins and Dice
- The Spam Filter
Region 7Stats Observatory
Samples, spread and misleading data
- Samples and Spread
- Misleading Data
Region 8Prediction Plains
Drawing the line that predicts, in code
- Drawing the Line
- Learning the Line
Region 9Classification Citadel
Sorting things into groups
- The Gatekeeper
- Defend the Gate
Region 10Overfit Swamp
Models that learn too much
- Too Many Wiggles
- Escape the Swamp
Region 11Cluster Isles
Finding groups nobody labeled
- Finding Groups
- Flattening the Map
Region 12Neural Tower
Neurons, layers and learning backwards
- One Neuron
- Learning Backwards
Region 13Vision Vault
Teaching NOVA to see
- Seeing Edges
- NOVA Sees
Region 14The Data Docks
Real data: framing, cleaning, splitting, judging
- The Right Question
- Messy Cargo
- Three Piles
- Rare Cargo
- Tuning the Forecast
- Next Week’s Cargo
Region 15The Foundry
Training that works in practice
- Round the Valley
- Handfuls
- Heavy Ball
- The Deep Stack
- Ten Doors
- Forge Race
Region 16Reward Reef
Learning from rewards alone
- Three Ways to Learn
- The Reef Grid
- Mapping Values
- Learning by Diving
- Reef Run
Region 17Word Woods
Language, attention and transformers
- Words to Numbers
- Remembering the Sentence
- Who Looks at Whom
- Many Eyes, In Order
- The Block
- The Talking Tree
Region 18Dream Studio
Learning representations, and imagining
- Squeeze and Rebuild
- Learning Without Labels
- Dreaming on Purpose
- Forger and Critic
- From Noise
- The Teacher’s Test