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ML Fundamentals

Neural networks, backpropagation, gradient descent — the maths behind AI

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Manipulate vectors and matrices
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Train decision trees, random forests, and neural nets
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Apply k-means and DBSCAN clustering
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When Your Model Cheats Without Cheating: A Lesson in What “Source Separation” Really Protects You…
Medium · LLM 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
When Your Model Cheats Without Cheating: A Lesson in What “Source Separation” Really Protects You…
What I learned building a political bias classifier — and why the most interesting result wasn’t the best one. Continue reading on Medium »
Our Fraud Detection Model Had 90% False Negatives. Here Is How We Fixed It.
Medium · Machine Learning 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Our Fraud Detection Model Had 90% False Negatives. Here Is How We Fixed It.
A technical deep dive into AutoEncoder anomaly scoring, Gradient Boosting ensembles, SHAP explainability, and real-time Kafka streaming. Continue reading on Med
Our Fraud Detection Model Had 90% False Negatives. Here Is How We Fixed It.
Medium · Data Science 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Our Fraud Detection Model Had 90% False Negatives. Here Is How We Fixed It.
A technical deep dive into AutoEncoder anomaly scoring, Gradient Boosting ensembles, SHAP explainability, and real-time Kafka streaming. Continue reading on Med
Our Fraud Detection Model Had 90% False Negatives. Here Is How We Fixed It.
Medium · Programming 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Our Fraud Detection Model Had 90% False Negatives. Here Is How We Fixed It.
A technical deep dive into AutoEncoder anomaly scoring, Gradient Boosting ensembles, SHAP explainability, and real-time Kafka streaming. Continue reading on Med
Building an AI-Powered Prediction Engine for Racing Data: A Developer's Journey
Dev.to · Ali Can 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Building an AI-Powered Prediction Engine for Racing Data: A Developer's Journey
As developers, we are always looking for interesting datasets to test our machine learning skills....
20 AI Concepts Explained
Medium · LLM 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
20 AI Concepts Explained
If you’re a developer stepping into AI and ML for the first time, the terminology can feel like a wall. Loss functions, transformers… Continue reading on Medium
Medium · LLM 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Your pipeline has no memory of its own uncertainty.
Most multi-step AI pipelines are built around a simple question: did this output pass or fail? Each step gets a verdict. If it passes, the… Continue reading on
Regime Detection in Markets: Why Most Trading Strategies Fail (and How Quants Adapt)
Medium · Data Science 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Regime Detection in Markets: Why Most Trading Strategies Fail (and How Quants Adapt)
Most trading strategies don’t fail because they’re wrong. Continue reading on Medium »
Bombay Stock Exchange, Jan 2026
Medium · Machine Learning 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Bombay Stock Exchange, Jan 2026
In January 2026, the Bombay Stock Exchange had to issue an emergency public warning. Deepfake videos of their CEO were circulating online… Continue reading on M
The Monitoring Pipeline, With One Prediction Tracked Across 30 Days of Silence (Part 5)
Medium · AI 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The Monitoring Pipeline, With One Prediction Tracked Across 30 Days of Silence (Part 5)
Part 4 — https://medium.com/@mittalutkarsh/the-training-pipeline-with-one-row-flowing-through-every-stage-part4-2797aa2e6c2d Continue reading on Medium »
AI-Based Agriculture Image Classification System using Deep Learning
Dev.to · Mogalluru Pavan 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
AI-Based Agriculture Image Classification System using Deep Learning
🌿 Introduction Agriculture plays a vital role in our daily life. Farmers often face...
The ML Portfolio That Actually Gets You Hired in 2026
Medium · Machine Learning 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The ML Portfolio That Actually Gets You Hired in 2026
Building with Data | Part 6: The Series Finale Continue reading on Medium »
The ML Portfolio That Actually Gets You Hired in 2026
Medium · LLM 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The ML Portfolio That Actually Gets You Hired in 2026
Building with Data | Part 6: The Series Finale Continue reading on Medium »
LeetCode Solution: 74. Search a 2D Matrix
Dev.to · Vansh Aggarwal 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
LeetCode Solution: 74. Search a 2D Matrix
LeetCode 74: Search a 2D Matrix - Conquer the Grid with Binary Search! Hey fellow coders...
Time Series Foundation Models: A Deep Dive into Strengths and Limitations
Medium · AI 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Time Series Foundation Models: A Deep Dive into Strengths and Limitations
What works, what doesn’t, and how to make them work beyond the hype Continue reading on Data Science Collective »
Time Series Foundation Models: A Deep Dive into Strengths and Limitations
Medium · Data Science 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Time Series Foundation Models: A Deep Dive into Strengths and Limitations
What works, what doesn’t, and how to make them work beyond the hype Continue reading on Data Science Collective »
Medium · Deep Learning 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Denoising Audio with Deep Learning (From First Principles to PyTorch)
Background noise is everywhere — fans, traffic, keyboard clicks, chatter. Yet tools like Microsoft Teams make voices sound clean in real… Continue reading on Me
Medium · AI 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Generative AI From First Principles — Article 7 GRU (Gated Recurrent Unit)
Recap: From RNN to LSTM Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Deep Learning 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Generative AI From First Principles — Article 7 GRU (Gated Recurrent Unit)
Recap: From RNN to LSTM Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · AI 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Generative AI from First Principles — Article 6 LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory)
Recap: From RNNs to the Need for Better Memory Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Deep Learning 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Generative AI from First Principles — Article 6 LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory)
Recap: From RNNs to the Need for Better Memory Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How AI Works Step by Step: A Complete Beginner's Guide
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept—it’s part of our everyday lives, from search engines to virtual assistants. If you’ve ever wonder
Ekstraksi “Signature Keywords” pada Review Game Steam Menggunakan PySpark & TF-IDF (Tanpa Kamus…
Medium · Python 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Ekstraksi “Signature Keywords” pada Review Game Steam Menggunakan PySpark & TF-IDF (Tanpa Kamus…
Dalam analisis data teks (Natural Language Processing / NLP), salah satu tantangan terbesar adalah menemukan inti pembicaraan atau kata… Continue reading on Med
Machine Learning Developers: Why Most ML Projects Fail After the Model Stage
Dev.to · Dixit Angiras 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Machine Learning Developers: Why Most ML Projects Fail After the Model Stage
Training a model is easy. Getting 85–90% accuracy in a notebook? Also doable. But getting that model...
Unsupervised Machine Learning. K-Means & Hierarchical Clustering
Dev.to · Kelvin 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Unsupervised Machine Learning. K-Means & Hierarchical Clustering
Unsupervised machine learning is a branch of machine learning where models are trained on data...
They Had to Delete the Model
Medium · AI 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
They Had to Delete the Model
When AI training data becomes a liability instead of an asset Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · AI 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
From Basics to Brilliance: Building a Strong Foundation in Data Structures and Algorithms
Learning data structures and algorithms (DSA) is essential for anyone interested in computer science, software engineering, or programming… Continue reading on
Medium · Data Science 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
From Basics to Brilliance: Building a Strong Foundation in Data Structures and Algorithms
Learning data structures and algorithms (DSA) is essential for anyone interested in computer science, software engineering, or programming… Continue reading on
Medium · Programming 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
From Basics to Brilliance: Building a Strong Foundation in Data Structures and Algorithms
Learning data structures and algorithms (DSA) is essential for anyone interested in computer science, software engineering, or programming… Continue reading on
Dev.to AI 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
5 Critical AI Predictive Maintenance Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
5 Critical AI Predictive Maintenance Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them Every failed AI project has a story. The predictive maintenance pilot that identified hundre
Dev.to AI 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
AI Predictive Maintenance Approaches: Comparing Methods and Tools
AI Predictive Maintenance Approaches: Comparing Methods and Tools Choosing the right approach for predictive maintenance can feel like navigating a maze of comp
AI Insights: The Hidden Challenges of Sorting Categorical Data
Medium · Machine Learning 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
AI Insights: The Hidden Challenges of Sorting Categorical Data
Categorical data is commonly organized by human beings or machine learning models. Which approach to take and how decisions are made in… Continue reading on Med
AI Insights: The Hidden Challenges of Sorting Categorical Data
Medium · Data Science 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
AI Insights: The Hidden Challenges of Sorting Categorical Data
Categorical data is commonly organized by human beings or machine learning models. Which approach to take and how decisions are made in… Continue reading on Med
Mutation Testing in .NET 10
Dev.to · Christian Alt-Wibbing 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Mutation Testing in .NET 10
Why your tests might be lying to you and how to catch them I've seen projects with 90%...
Understanding Machine Learning: A Plain-English Guide for Business Leaders
Medium · Machine Learning 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Understanding Machine Learning: A Plain-English Guide for Business Leaders
Introduction Continue reading on Medium »
ArXiv cs.AI 📐 ML Fundamentals 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
OMEGA: Optimizing Machine Learning by Evaluating Generated Algorithms
arXiv:2604.26211v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In order to automate AI research we introduce a full, end-to-end framework, OMEGA: Optimizing Machine learning b
ArXiv cs.AI 📐 ML Fundamentals 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Apriori-based Analysis of Learned Helplessness in Mathematics Tutoring: Behavioral Patterns by Level, Intervention, and Outcome
arXiv:2604.26237v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study applied the Apriori algorithm to analyze behavioral interaction patterns associated with learned help
ArXiv cs.AI 📐 ML Fundamentals 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
When to Vote, When to Rewrite: Disagreement-Guided Strategy Routing for Test-Time Scaling
arXiv:2604.26644v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) achieve strong performance on mathematical reasoning tasks but remain unreliable o
ArXiv cs.AI 📐 ML Fundamentals 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
A Randomized PDE Energy driven Iterative Framework for Efficient and Stable PDE Solutions
arXiv:2604.25943v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficient and stable solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) is central to scientific and engineerin
ArXiv cs.AI 📐 ML Fundamentals 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Planar Gaussian Splatting with Bilinear Spatial Transformer for Wireless Radiance Field Reconstruction
arXiv:2604.25945v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wireless radiance field (WRF) reconstruction aims to learn a continuous, queryable representation of radio fre
ArXiv cs.AI 📐 ML Fundamentals 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Mini-Batch Class Composition Bias in Link Prediction
arXiv:2604.25978v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prior work on node classification has shown that Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) can learn representations that t
ArXiv cs.AI 📐 ML Fundamentals 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Correcting Performance Estimation Bias in Imbalanced Classification with Minority Subconcepts
arXiv:2604.26024v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Class-level evaluation can conceal substantial performance disparities across subconcepts within the same clas
ArXiv cs.AI 📐 ML Fundamentals 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
RaMP: Runtime-Aware Megakernel Polymorphism for Mixture-of-Experts
arXiv:2604.26039v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The optimal kernel configuration for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) inference depends on both batch size and the exp
ArXiv cs.AI 📐 ML Fundamentals 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning Framework for Distributed Chemical Process Optimization
arXiv:2604.26073v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial chemical plants often operate under strict data confidentiality constraints, making centralized dat
Knowing When the Model Is Actually Right
Medium · LLM 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Knowing When the Model Is Actually Right
The first thing I built at NovumAI wasn’t the model. It was the eval harness. Continue reading on Medium »
proModeling+ 2026: The Full Refresh
Medium · Machine Learning 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
proModeling+ 2026: The Full Refresh
A rebuilt pitch-quality stack with sharper predictiveness, faster stabilization, and a cleaner split between what a pitch is and what a… Continue reading on Med
proModeling+ 2026: The Full Refresh
Medium · Data Science 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
proModeling+ 2026: The Full Refresh
A rebuilt pitch-quality stack with sharper predictiveness, faster stabilization, and a cleaner split between what a pitch is and what a… Continue reading on Med
Medium · Machine Learning 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Your Model’s 90% Accuracy Is Lying to You
The most dangerous ML metric is one that looks right — and this is exactly what that failure looks like in production. Continue reading on Medium »