Stanford computer science professor just revealed how to master Markov Decision Processes.
83-minutes. free. By Stanford.
here's what they cover:
• search problems vs. stochastic environments
• policy evaluation & q-value recurrence math
• value iteration loop engineering
• convergence limits under a cyclic graphs
Bookmark & watch today. Then read the article below.
Ex-Google engineer just dropped 1-hour course: loops, self-improving AI, memory systems - from scratch:
00:00 - the self-building agent
03:01 - soul.md runs everything
30:16 - RAG memory: pull 20 messages, not 2,000
31:48 - the loop that knows when to stop
35:14 - find the bug, fix the prompt
50:22 - how Claude compresses your memory
1 hour of his guide beats any paid agent course
watch & bookmark - then read Karpathy's loop method below
Andrej Karpathy just dropped a 6-hour course on how to build LLMs from scratch:
• 00:00 - Deep dive into LLMs like ChatGPT
• 03:31:23 - Building ChatGPT from scratch in live
• 05:27:43 - How to use LLMs (Karpathy method)
This course will replace a $90K Stanford LLM master’s degree.
Start watching today, then read how to become an AI engineer in article below.
14x faster and 90% cheaper LLM inference.
(100% open-source, KV cache management)
your LLM does the same expensive work over and over.
every request, it re-reads the same system prompts and the same documents from scratch, even if it processed them one second ago. token prices keep falling, but agent workloads re-send so much repeated context that the bill climbs anyway.
LMCache fixes this. it's an open-source KV cache management layer that plugs into vLLM, SGLang, and TensorRT-LLM.
here's how it works:
LLMs recompute their understanding of the same content on every request. the same system prompts, the same documents, processed from scratch every time, and a single GPU throws away roughly 15 TB of this reusable cache per day.
LMCache stores that cache and serves it back on repeat requests, running as a separate process completely outside the inference engine.
the engine just asks for the cache blocks it needs. LMCache handles all the heavy data movement across GPU, CPU, disk, and remote storage in parallel, so cache work never steals compute from inference.
it also reuses cache beyond exact prefixes. their CacheBlend technique (EuroSys 2025 best paper) keeps RAG documents cached no matter what order they appear in.
on H200s with a 235B model, that adds up to 14x faster time-to-first-token and 4x faster decoding. and since reuse skips the compute entirely (the same reason providers discount cached tokens by 90%), the cost savings follow directly.
GitHub repo: https://t.co/TXlaLLu04a
(don't forget to star 🌟)
i wrote a full breakdown of KV cache management that walks through why 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗶𝘅 𝗰𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 silently breaks in three common cases, the 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 behind the 14x speedup, 𝗖𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗕𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱, and how to turn every document in your knowledge base into a reusable cached asset.
the article is quoted below.
My friend makes $850,000/year as an Anthropic AI engineer.
No MIT. No Stanford. No PhD.
I asked him how he broke into AI from scratch.
He sent me a course that was never supposed to get out. A developer teaching to build self-improving AI agents from scratch.
You will learn exactly how AI agents like Claude Code and OpenClaw are actually built.
You won't find anything better about becoming an AI engineer in 2026 than this video.
I watched it last night.
Halfway through, I realized I could land a role at a top AI lab in months, not years.
Bookmark this and read the article below.
Adam Brown (@A_G_I_Joe) is back!
General relativity is said to be the most beautiful idea the human mind has ever produced.
Most of us will never get to fully appreciate its elegance by taking the 20-lecture graduate course Adam taught on it at Stanford.
But in the video below, Adam distills the key idea at its heart so clearly and compellingly that even I could keep up lol.
At the core of general relativity, Einstein is trying to figure out the principle behind a particular coincidence: that the mass that resists acceleration and the mass that gravity pulls on just happen to be exactly the same. Adam then leads us through the path of insight which Einstein called his “happiest thought.”
Then Adam lectures on black holes. First, by showing how even under special relativity you could create a perpetual motion machine if black holes weren't truly black. And then, by explaining why the observations of an infalling observer and a distant bystander to the black hole would be so radically different
Adam leads Blueshift, the team at Google DeepMind cracking science and reasoning.
Which gave us the opportunity to discuss at the very end how close we are to AIs that could rediscover general relativity from scratch. Stay till the close for some philosophy of science.
0:00:00 – The coincidence that led Einstein to general relativity
0:16:42 – Gravity is a consequence of curved spacetime, not a force
0:31:46 – Why black holes prevent unlimited energy extraction
0:47:12 – Black holes are the ultimate power plants
1:13:50 – What falling into a black hole would actually feel like
1:18:51 – The three ways we know black holes are real
1:24:21 – The first time we saw gravity bend light
1:29:33 – How far can AI get without experimental evidence?
Look up Dwarkesh Podcast on YouTube/Spotify to watch. Enjoy!
Ex-NVIDIA engineer who built Unsloth explained RL, kernels, reasoning, quantization, and agents in 2 hours 42 minutes - better than $5000 fine-tuning bootcamps.
pick the base model -> write triton kernels for 2x faster fine-tune -> quantize to 4-bit -> run GRPO/DPO -> ship a reasoning model on your single GPU.
That loop is why Unsloth is the default way to fine-tune Llama, Qwen, Gemma, and Phi on hardware you already own.
Unsloth + Triton kernels + 4-bit quantization + GRPO/DPO + single-GPU fine-tuning - that's the stack.
Watch and save it, then fine-tune your first model tonight.
My friend applied to 200 tech jobs in two years. No PhD. No Stanford.
Last month Anthropic offered him $750,000.
I asked him how he broke in from zero.
He sent me a course that was never supposed to get out. A 3-hour video to build a full LLM from scratch.
A developer teaches you exactly how LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude are actually built.
I watched it last night.
Halfway through, I realized it's embarrassingly simple to break into an AI lab.
Bookmark this and read the article below.
• 00:00 - intro to LLMs
• 05:43 - LLM transformer architecture
• 40:24 - training the LLM
• 1:30:27 - modernizing the LLM
• 2:33:53 - scaling the LLM