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A running log of things I'm learning to build strong fundamentals while also expanding my knowledge of adjacent technologies everyday.

Updated: Once a month | Current Focus: Generative AI

Generalized Skills

Domain-agnostic, stack-independent skills

System Design

Format	Resource	Length	Progress
Book	Designing Machine Learning Systems	386 pgs	✅
	Designing Data-Intensive Applications	616 pgs	⬜
Udacity	A/B Testing	5/5	⬜
	Authentication & Authorization: OAuth	4/4	✅
	Client-Server Communication	5/5	⬜
	Designing RESTful APIs	5/5	✅
	HTTP & Web Servers	3/3	✅
	Networking for Web Developers	5/5	✅
Udemy	AWS Certified Developer - Associate 2018		✅
Datacamp	A/B Testing in Python	4h	✅
	Customer Analytics & A/B Testing in Python	4h	✅
	Machine Learning Monitoring Concepts	2h	✅
	MLOps Concepts	2h	✅
Neetcode	System Design for Beginners		✅
	System Design Interview		✅

Maths

Format	Resource	Length	Progress
Datacamp	Foundations of Probability in Python	5h	✅
	Introduction to Statistics	4h	✅
	Introduction to Statistics in Python	4h	✅
	Hypothesis Testing in Python	4h	✅
	Statistical Thinking in Python (Part 1)	3h	✅
	Statistical Thinking in Python (Part 2)	4h	✅
	Experimental Design in Python	4h	✅
edX	Essential Statistics for Data Analysis using Excel		✅
MIT	MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra, Spring 2005	36/36	✅
Udacity	Intro to Inferential Statistics	23/23	✅
	Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues	1/1	✅
	Linear Algebra Refresher	8/8	⬜
Youtube	Essence of linear algebra	16/16	⬜

Data Structures and Algorithms

Format	Resource	Length	Progress
Book	Grokking Algorithms	254 pgs	✅
	A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms	489/489 pgs	✅
Udacity	Intro to Data Structures and Algorithms		✅
Neetcode	Algorithms and Data Structures for Beginners		✅
	Advanced Algorithms	1/7	⏳
Youtube	Sliding Window Technique - Algorithmic Mental Models	36m	✅

Data Modeling

Format	Resource	Length	Progress
Udacity	Intro to relational database	4/4	✅
	SQL for Data Analysis	10/10	⬜
	Database Systems Concepts & Design		⬜
Datacamp	Database Design	4h	✅
	Introduction to Databases in Python	4h	⬜
	Intro to SQL for Data Science	2h	✅
	Intermediate SQL	4h	✅
	Joining Data in SQL	4h	✅
	Data Manipulation in SQL	4h	⬜
	Exploratory Data Analysis in SQL	4h	⬜
	Analyzing Business Data in SQL	4h	⬜
	Reporting in SQL	4h	⬜
	NoSQL Concepts	2h	✅
	Introduction to MongoDB in Python	3h	⬜

Design Sense

Format	Resource	Length	Progress
Book	Refactoring UI	213 pgs	⬜
Pluralsight	UX Fundamentals		✅
Course	How to Visualize Value		✅
	Series: K-12 Figma Design Basics		✅
Youtube	How to Make Your Website Not Ugly: Basic UX for Programmers	48m	✅
Article	Create an illustration in Figma design		✅

Linux & Command Line

Format	Resource	Length	Progress
Udacity	Linux Command Line Basics	30/30	✅
	Shell Workshop	1/1	✅
	Configuring Linux Web Servers	3/3	✅
Datacamp	Introduction to Shell for Data Science	4h	✅
	Introduction to Bash Scripting	4h	✅
	Data Processing in Shell	4h	✅
MIT	The Missing Semester	11/11	✅
Article	A guide to manage your environment variables in a better way using direnv		✅

Version Control

Format	Resource	Length	Progress
Udacity	Version Control with Git	6/6	✅
	GitHub & Collaboration		✅
	How to Use Git and GitHub	4/4	✅
Datacamp	Introduction to Git for Data Science	4h	✅
	Advanced Git	3h	✅
Youtube	How to Use Git Worktree \| Checkout Multiple Git Branches at Once	11m	✅

Testing & Profiling

Format	Resource	Length	Progress
Datacamp	Unit Testing for Data Science in Python	4h	✅
Youtube	Debug Python inside Docker using debugpy and VSCode	8m	✅
	Improving Your Tests With the Python Mock Object Library: Introducing Mock & Replacing Code	16m	✅
	Hot-swapping Symbols During Tests: Demystifying unittest.mock[.patch] - Bryce Beagle	30m	✅
Article	Introduction to Memory Profiling in Python		✅
	Profiling Python code with memory_profiler		✅
	How to Use "memory_profiler" to Profile Memory Usage by Python Code?		✅
	Concurrency For Starlette Apps (e.g FastAPI / FastHTML)		✅

Technical Writing

Format	Resource	Progress
Course	Google: Technical Writing One	✅
	Google: Technical Writing Two	⬜
	Compound Content	✅
	Build Once, Sell Twice	✅
Book	Writing for Software Developers	✅

Career

Format	Resource	Length	Progress
Book	The Tech Resume Inside Out	280 pgs	✅
	The Coding Career Handbook		✅
	The Software Engineer's Guidebook	499 pgs	✅

Programming

Format	Resource	Length	Progress
Book	Python 201	352 pgs	⬜
	Writing Idiomatic Python 3	332 pgs	✅
Datacamp	Writing Efficient Python Code	4h	✅
	Writing Functions in Python	4h	✅
	Object-Oriented Programming in Python	4h	✅
	Intermediate Object-Oriented Programming in Python	4h	✅
	Importing Data in Python (Part 1)	3h	✅
	Importing Data in Python (Part 2)	2h	✅
	Intermediate Python for Data Science	4h	✅
	Python Data Science Toolbox (Part 1)	3h	✅
	Python Data Science Toolbox (Part 2)	4h	✅
	Developing Python Packages	4h	✅
	Conda Essentials	2h	✅
	Working with Dates and Times in Python	4h	✅
Youtube	Tutorial: Sebastian Witowski - Modern Python Developer's Toolkit	2h24m	✅
Article	Python's many command-line utilities		⬜
	A Programmer’s Introduction to Unicode		✅
	Exposing string types to maximize user happiness		✅

Development Environment

Format	Resource	Length	Progress
DeepLearning.AI	Build Apps with Windsurf’s AI Coding Agents	1h30m	✅
Pluralsight	Using The Chrome Developer Tools		✅
Youtube	Prompt Driven Development Series	9/9	✅
	How Anthropic Built Claude Code (w/ Boris Cherny)	50m	✅
Docs	VSCode Docs: Python Interactive window		✅
Article	A Guide to Claude Code 2.0 and getting better at using coding agents		✅
	Understanding is the new bottleneck		✅

Specialized Skills

Generative AI

Natural Language Processing

Format	Resource	Length	Progress
Book	Book: Natural Language Processing with Transformers	400 pgs	✅
Stanford	CS224U: Natural Language Understanding \| Spring 2019	15/15	✅
	CS224N: NLP with Deep Learning \| Winter 2019	22/22	✅
CMU	Low-resource NLP Bootcamp 2020	8/8	✅
	Multilingual NLP 2020		✅
Datacamp	Feature Engineering for NLP in Python	4h	✅
	Natural Language Processing Fundamentals in Python	4h	✅
	Regular Expressions in Python	4h	✅
	RNN for Language Modeling	4h	✅
	Natural Language Generation in Python	4h	✅
	Building Chatbots in Python	4h	✅
	Sentiment Analysis in Python	4h	✅
	Machine Translation in Python	4h	✅
Article	The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Collocations		⬜
	FuzzyWuzzy: Fuzzy String Matching in Python		✅
	Transformers: Origins		✅
	Understanding the Difference Between Embedding Layers and Linear Layers		✅

LLM Theory

Format	Resource	Length	Progress
Book	Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation	424 pgs	✅
	Large Language Models: A Deep Dive: Bridging Theory and Practice	600 pgs	⬜
	Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)	472 pgs	✅
	The Hundred-Page Language Models Book	100 pgs	✅
	Super Study Guide: Transformers & Large Language Models	350 pgs	✅
	The Smol Training Playbook: The Secrets to Building World-Class LLMs		⬜
Courses	Stanford CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch	18/18	✅
DeepLearning.AI	Pretraining LLMs	1h29m	✅
	Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback	1h32m	✅
	How Transformer LLMs Work	1h44m	✅
Karpathy	Intro to Large Language Models	1h	✅
	Let's build the GPT Tokenizer	2hr13m	✅
	Let's reproduce GPT-2 (124M)	4hr1m	✅
	Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT	3h31m	✅
Youtube	5 Years of GPTs with Finbarr Timbers	55m	✅
	A Hackers' Guide to Language Models	1h30m	✅
	Stanford CS229 I Machine Learning I Building Large Language Models (LLMs)	1h44m	✅
	LLaMA explained: KV-Cache, Rotary Positional Embedding, RMS Norm, Grouped Query Attention, SwiGLU	1h10m	✅
	CMU Advanced NLP Fall 2024 (14): Ensembling and Mixture of Experts	1h5m	✅
	A little guide to building Large Language Models in 2024	1h15m	✅
	How I use LLMs	2h7m	✅
	Simple Diffusion Language Models	15m	✅
	Zed Inferred: Diffusion Language Models	1h2m	✅
	Some open problems I am currently thinking about	30m	✅
	Rotary Positional Embeddings: Combining Absolute and Relative	11m	✅
	How Rotary Position Embedding Supercharges Modern LLMs [RoPE]	13m	✅
	Large Language Models in Five Formulas	58m	✅
	What I Learned From Implementing LLM Architectures From Scratch (And How to Get Started)	52m	✅
	LLM Building Blocks & Transformer Alternatives	27m	✅
	Everything I Learned Training Frontier Small Models	20m	✅
	The Secrets to Training World-Class LLMs	1h33m	✅
Article	You could have designed state of the art Positional Encoding		✅
	From Digits to Decisions: How Tokenization Impacts Arithmetic in LLMs		✅
	SolidGoldMagikarp (plus, prompt generation)		✅
	Sampling for Text Generation		✅
	First Token Cutoff LLM sampling		✅
	The Big LLM Architecture Comparison		✅
	From GPT-2 to gpt-oss: Analyzing the Architectural Advances		✅
	A Visual Guide to Mamba and State Space Models		⬜
	Patterns and Messages - Part 1 - The Missing Subscript		✅
	How text diffusion works		✅
	The Illustrated Evo 2		⬜
	Interpreting the Prediction of BERT Model for Text Classification		✅
	2025: The year in LLMs		✅
	Things we learned about LLMs in 2024		✅
	Synthetic pretraining		✅
	The Novice's LLM Training Guide		✅
	The Potential of RLMs		✅
	The Curious Case of the bos_token		✅
	Transformer Math 101		✅

Post-training (RLHF / RLVR)

Format	Resource	Length	Progress
Book	A Little Bit of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback	280 pgs	✅
DeepLearning.AI	Post-training of LLMs	1h26m	✅
Youtube	How DeepSeek Changes the LLM Story	49m	✅
	Speculations on Test-Time Scaling (o1)	47m	✅
	DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning	1h19m	✅
	MIT EI seminar, Hyung Won Chung from OpenAI. "Don't teach. Incentivize."	35m	✅
	Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) - Formula and Code	24m	✅
	How to approach post-training for AI applications	22m	✅
	Building Cursor Composer with Sasha Rush	19m	✅
	The RLHF Book Course	5/5	⬜
	Full Workshop: Reinforcement Learning, Kernels, Reasoning, Quantization & Agents — Daniel Han	2h42m	✅
	Special Topics in Kernels, RL, Reward Hacking in Agents — Daniel Han, Unsloth	2h20m	✅
	Everything Is a Rollout — Alex Shaw + Ryan Marten, Terminal-Bench, Harbor	21m	✅
Article	Scaling test-time compute - a Hugging Face Space by HuggingFaceH4		✅
	DeepSeek R1's recipe to replicate o1 and the future of reasoning LMs		✅
	The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1		✅
	A Visual Guide to Reasoning LLMs		✅
	GRPO in DeepSeek-R1		✅
	PPO & GRPO for LLM Alignment		✅
	Introduction to LLM Post-Training Techniques		✅
	Understanding Transformers... (beyond the Math)		✅
	SFT, RL, and On-Policy Distillation Through a Distributional Lens		✅

Multi-modality (Vision)

Format	Resource	Length	Progress
DeepLearning.AI	How Diffusion Models Work	46m	✅
	Prompt Engineering for Vision Models	1h32m	⬜
	Building Multimodal Search and RAG	1h32m	✅
Youtube	Lesson 9A 2022 - Stable Diffusion deep dive	41m	✅
	AI Visions Live \| Merve Noyan \| Open-source Multimodality	54m	✅
	Sander Dieleman - Generative modelling through iterative refinement	1h4m	✅
Article	Pinecone: Embedding Methods for Image Search	0/8	⏳
	Understanding Multimodal LLMs		✅
	Computer-Using Agent		✅
	Flow Matching in 5 Minutes		✅
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