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Curious
about AI?

Seven courses. From eight-year-olds to enterprise sales. Everything is free, everything is real, nothing's on a corporate calendar.

The catalog

For kids · ages 8–14
Start here if there's a curious 10-year-old at the table
For ages 8–14

AI for Kids

01

Foundations through stories and a career-game. The kind of book a parent reads alongside.

5 modules · BeginnerOpen →
For ages 14–18

AI for School Students

№02

A deeper take for teens — how LLMs actually work, prompting like a power user, and the careers AI is opening up. Coming next.

In the kilnIn progress
Core literacy
Read in any order — each stands alone
For everyone

AI Essentials

03

Vocabulary, history, honest limits. What an LLM is — and isn't — without the marketing.

4 modules · BeginnerOpen →
For builders

AI Deep Dive

04

Transformers, embeddings, fine-tuning, evals. The trade-offs that don't fit on a slide.

4 modules · AdvancedOpen →
For decision-makers

AI in Industry

05

A field map of products, providers, use-cases. Updated as the landscape shifts.

6 modules · IntermediateOpen →
Industry courses
Vertical, role-specific. More on the way.
Live cohort

AI for Cybersecurity Sales

06

Six weeks for SEs and AEs selling into security teams. Recorded for your time zone.

3 modules · IntermediateOpen →
In the kiln
More verticals next quarter
Healthcare, legal, and field-sales drafts are in review. Suggest one →
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Bring your team
We co-author industry courses with practitioners. If that's you, get in touch.

Side stuff

Two rabbit holes · enter at your own risk
Try things · break things

AI Playgrounds

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A wall of small, runnable toys. Tokenizer in your browser. Embeddings on a 2D plane. Ten minutes teaches you what an hour of reading wouldn't.

  • TokenizerSee how your sentence becomes numbersRUN →
  • Embedding mapWords plotted in 2D — drag them aroundRUN →
  • Prompt diffTwo prompts, side by side, same modelRUN →
  • Temperature dialSame prompt, ten temperaturesRUN →
12 toys · all in-browser · no API keysOpen the room →
Field notes · not yet a course

Agentic AI

Tools, memory, the loop. A working developer's tour of why agents fail in production — published as essays while the proper course is still in the kiln.

  • I.What an agent actually is (and isn't)8 min
  • II.The loop, and why it gets stuck11 min
  • III.Tool use without prayer14 min
  • IV.Memory: the parts that work9 min
4 essays so far · new one most weeksRead the notes →
Marginalia · Did you know

The first chatbot, ELIZA, was built in 1966 — to parody therapy.

Joseph Weizenbaum wrote it as a satire of how machines fake understanding. People started treating it like a real therapist anyway. He spent the rest of his career warning us.

ELIZA1966MIT
A free public library for AI literacy. Built by people who'd rather you understand than subscribe.
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