In January 2025, DeepSeek released R1 (and, weeks earlier, V3), competing with o1 and GPT-4o in reasoning — at a fraction of the training and inference cost. The weights were released openly. The trick is not a dataset trick: it is a rewrite of the Transformer’s core, Multi-Head Latent Attention … Read more
Jason Dsouza’s Deep Learning Crash Course for Beginners on freeCodeCamp maps the territory: what DL is, how a network learns, the vocabulary (loss, Adam, epoch), and the three architecture families. This article condenses the course. The math underneath — MatMul, GPU — is covered in GPU vs TPU; the … Read more
Recognizing a scribbled 3 in 28×28 pixels is instant for you. Writing an if/else that does the same — a curve here, a stroke there, and what if it is crooked? — is a nightmare. The neural network in But what is a neural network? from 3Blue1Brown (Grant Sanderson) breaks it down: it is not magic, but a function with … Read more
