AI by Hand ✍️ Academy

My New Year’s resolution for 2026 is simple:

I’m building the AI by Hand ✍️ Academy and opening my classroom to AI professionals around the world who care about math, algorithms, and architectures.

I will be dedicating substantial time to creating new material and organizing my existing content into a comprehensive library, from first principles to frontier systems.

Library

Seminar Series

• 🔥 OpenClaw - 12 Stages of Evolution from the Transformer (2/19/2026)

• 🔥 Transformer - Six Levels of Understanding (2/12/2026)

• Meta Superintelligence Labs vs Facebook AI Research (2/5/2026)

• 9 AI Eval Formulas (1/29/2026)

• Google Ironwood TPU: From Bits to HBM (1/22/2026)

• How AWS Uses Small Models Learn Tool Use (1/15/2026)

• Attention (1/15/2026)

• DeepSeek’s Manifold-Constrained Hyper Connection (mHC) (1/8/2026)

• Introduction to Generative AI (1/8/2026)

• Gated Attention (NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper) (12/16/2025)

• [Free Preview] Agent Hallucination (11/7/2025)

• [Free Preview] GPU (10/30/2025)

• [Free Preview] Scaling LLMs Google (8/20/2025)

• [Free Preview] LLaMA 1 to 2 to 3 to 4 (5/14/2025)

• [Free Preview] Drawing DeepSeek by Hand ✍️ (2/20/2025)

Course: Introduction to Agentic AI

New 2026 edition, featuring live calculations and sample code built directly in Excel.

• Module 1: Foundation

• Module 2: LLM to RAG to Agents

• Module 3: Vector Database

• Module 4: Tool Use

Drawings: Frontier AI

1. “Expert Choice” Mixture of Experts (MoE)

2. MHA, MQA, GQA, MoE-A: More Attention!

3. New GPT-OSS Trick to Ignore Tokens

4. MXFP4, FP4, FP8

5. LoRA, Fine-Tune, Pre-Train

6. QLoRA, DoRA, BitFit, NF4 vs INT4

7. KV Cache, Prefill, Decode

8. [Free Preview] EmbeddingGemma, MRL, InfoNCE, Embed vs. Decode

9. Inference Batching, Request-vs-Token Level

10. MLP Parallelism: Data, Context, Row, Column, Pipeline

11. RoPE vs PE in QKV Self-Attention

12. RMS, Group, Layer, Batch Norm, Tensor Parallelism

13. Qwen 3

Excel Blueprints: Frontier AI

• DeepSeek Attention (DSA)

• Einsum: Outer Product to GQA

• DeepSeek OCR

• ResNet, ViT, Qwen 3 Attention

• RLHF PPO

• Sharding

• [Free Preview] LinearLayer+LoRA Blueprint: PyTorch, BLAS, CUDA

Excel Blueprints: Essential AI Math

1. Softmax

2. Sigmoid

3. Negative Log-Likelihood

4. Double Sum

5. ReLU

6. Leaky ReLU

7. [Free Preview] Sinusoidal Positional Encoding

8. Batch Normalization

9. Layer Normalization

10. RMS Normalization

11. Cross Entropy Loss

12. L2 Norm

13. L2 Loss

14. Binary Cross Entropy Loss

15. KL Divergence

16. ELU (Exponential Linear Unit)

17. Swish (Sigmoid Linear Unit, SiLU)

18. GELU (Gaussian Error Linear Unit)

19. Tanh

20. GLU (Gated Liner Unit)

Workbook: Matrix Multiplication

1. Calculate

2. Complexity

3. Shape

4. Identity

5. Scale

6. Shift

7. Combine Rows

8. Combine Columns

9. Not Commutative

10. Associative

11. Distributive

12. Chain

13. Transpose

14. Inverse

15. Linear Equations

16. Tiled Algorithm

💡 Pro tip: Get reimbursed

I designed this Academy for AI professionals working in industry. Most members don’t pay out of pocket—their companies cover it. The membership fits naturally within a professional development or L&D budget, and it costs less than a single traditional training course. Just ask.

📧 Template email to your manager/HR:

Hi [Manager’s Name],

I’d like to join the AI by Hand Academy ($29/month) led my Prof. Tom Yeh.

Many leading AI companies already sponsor their teams to join this Academy because it’s the only place that systematically connects the foundational math and algorithms to frontier architectures. The material maps directly to the AI model we use in practice, making it immediately relevant to my current projects.

Can we expense this under our training / professional development budget?

Thanks!

Special Acknowledgement: Founding Members

Your early trust, support, and energy turned this New Year’s resolution into something real. I’m deeply grateful. You helped me move from an idea to a commitment—and from a commitment to action.

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