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 learners around the world.

I will be dedicating substantial time to creating new material and organizing my existing content into live seminars, structured courses, learning paths, and books, all available for the members of the AI by Hand Academy.

🚀 Frontier Seminar Series

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

💡 Foundation Seminars Series

• 9 AI Eval Formulas (1/29/2026)

• Attention (1/15/2026)

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

• Agent Hallucination (11/7/2025)

• GPU (10/30/2025)

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] 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] LinearLayer+LoRA Blueprint: PyTorch, BLAS, CUDA

Excel Blueprints: Essential AI Math

• Softmax

• Sigmoid

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

“What I cannot create, I do not understand.”
— Richard Feynman

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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