Maths, CS and AI Compendium
Hey HN, I don’t know who else has the same issue, but: Textbooks often bury good ideas in dense notation, skip the intuition, assume you already know half the material, and get outdated in fast-moving fields like AI. Over the past 7 years of my AI/ML experience, I filled notebooks with intuition-first, real-world context, no hand-waving explanations of maths, computing and AI concepts. In 2024, a few friends used these notes to prep for interviews at DeepMind, OpenAI, Nvidia etc. They all got in and currently perform well in their roles. So I'm sharing. This is an open & unconventional…
Maths, CS and AI Compendium launched on February 16, 2026 with 88 votes, #417 of 16,628 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Maths, CS and AI Compendium is an open-source textbook covering mathematics, computing, and artificial intelligence with an emphasis on intuition and real-world context. Designed for practitioners and students preparing for careers in AI research and engineering, it explains concepts without dense notation or hand-waving. The material was developed over seven years of professional AI and machine learning experience and structured to fill gaps left by traditional textbooks in fast-moving fields.
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From the sources
Become a cracked AI/ML researcher/engineer with this unconventional textbook covering maths, computing, and ML with intuition. - HenryNdubuaku/maths-cs-ai-compendium
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey HN, I don’t know who else has the same issue, but: Textbooks often bury good ideas in dense notation, skip the intuition, assume you already know half the material, and get outdated in fast-moving fields like AI. Over the past 7 years of my AI/ML experience, I filled notebooks with intuition-first…
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