An interactive AI tutorial I wrote for my 11-year-old
I've created an interactive tutorial that teaches how AI models work. I set myself the goal of making it approachable enough that my 11 year old son Isaac can fully understand it. The tutorial aims to be easily understood by anyone who understands basic math, and yet give them a deep intuitive sense of not just how AI works but why it works the way it does. It does this using a series of interactive playgrounds that let the reader play with each idea. Currently there are 9 chapters, starting from scratch and ending with transformers. I'm planning to keep adding more chapters until the…
An interactive AI tutorial I wrote for my 11-year-old launched on May 5, 2026 with 5 votes, #2,008 of 20,538 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
An interactive, visual guide to understanding AI from first principles. Learn neural networks, transformers, and modern AI through hands-on experimentation.
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I've created an interactive tutorial that teaches how AI models work. I set myself the goal of making it approachable enough that my 11 year old son Isaac can fully understand it. The tutorial aims to be easily understood by anyone who understands basic math, and yet give them a deep intuitive sense of not just how…
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