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Welcome to machine learning & AI monthly for October 2025.
This is the video version of the newsletter I write every month which covers the latest and greatest (but not always the latest) in the world of AI and ML.
Read the issues online:
- AI/ML Monthly October 2025 (this video) โ https://zerotomastery.io/blog/ai-and-machine-learning-monthly-newsletter-october-2025/
- AI/ML Monthly September 2025 โ https://zerotomastery.io/blog/ai-and-machine-learning-monthly-newsletter-september-2025/
My links:
Download Nutrify (my startup) - https://nutrify.app
Download KeepTrack (my other startup) - https://keeptrack.app
Personal website - https://www.mrdbourke.com
My ML blog - https://learnml.io
Read my novel Charlie Walks - https://www.charliewalks.com
Courses I teach:
Learn AI/ML (beginner-friendly course) - https://dbourke.link/ZTMMLcourse
Learn Hugging Face - https://dbourke.link/ZTMHuggingFace
Learn TensorFlow - https://dbourke.link/ZTMTFcourse
Learn PyTorch - https://dbourke.link/ZTMPyTorch
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:30 - My Work
0:42 - New course: Hugging Face Bootcamp - https://dbourke.link/ZTMHuggingFace
3:15 - Note: Skipping November 2025 (getting married)
3:45 - From the Internet
4:02 - Smol Training Playbook (200+ page LLM guide) - https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceTB/smol-training-playbook
7:11 - Hugging Face Hub v1.0 - https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface-hub-v1
8:41 - Streaming datasets upgrade - https://huggingface.co/blog/streaming-datasets
11:54 - Exo: DGX Spark + Mac Studio for LLM latency - https://blog.exolabs.net/nvidia-dgx-spark
20:27 - Visualizing how VLMs work - https://huggingface.co/blog/not-lain/vlms
24:18 - NanoVLM - https://github.com/yuvalkirstain/NanoVLM
24:47 - Case study: Basketball player tracking - https://blog.roboflow.com/identify-basketball-players/
31:29 - When LoRA matches full fine-tuning - https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/lora/
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TEACHING BOTS TO PLAY GAMES | 100 Days of Code 9
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Learning about Generative Adversarial Networks on Udacity | 100 Days of Code 11
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Completing Andrew Ng's Machine Learning Course on Coursera | 100 Days of Code 12
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Finishing the Treehouse Python Track | 100 Days of Code 13
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GENERATING FACES WITH GANs | 100 Days of Code 14
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Graduating From the Udacity Deep Learning Nanodegree | 100 Days of Code 15
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PYTHON && POETRY | 100 Days of Code 16
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AI Meets Blockchain! | Learning Intelligence 5
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Passing Project 3 of Udacity's Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree | Learning Intelligence 9
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Bayes Networks, Hidden Markov Models and How I Wake Up | Learning Intelligence 10
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Udacity AI Nanodegree Progress and Bayes' Rule Explained | Learning Intelligence 11
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Finishing Term 1 of Udacity's Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree | Learning Intelligence 13
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Computer Vision Basics + More deeplearning.ai Progress! | Learning Intelligence 16
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Completing the Deeplearning.ai Specialization on Coursera | Learning Intelligence 18
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Starting Term 2 of the Udacity Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree | Learning Intelligence 19
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Submitting the Computer Vision Capstone Project | Udacity AI Nanodegree | Learning Intelligence 20
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deeplearning.ai Sequence Models Course Progress | Learning Intelligence 21
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Chapters (13)
Intro
0:30
My Work
0:42
New course: Hugging Face Bootcamp - https://dbourke.link/ZTMHuggingFace
3:15
Note: Skipping November 2025 (getting married)
3:45
From the Internet
4:02
Smol Training Playbook (200+ page LLM guide) - https://huggingface.co/spaces/H
7:11
Hugging Face Hub v1.0 - https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface-hub-v1
8:41
Streaming datasets upgrade - https://huggingface.co/blog/streaming-datasets
11:54
Exo: DGX Spark + Mac Studio for LLM latency - https://blog.exolabs.net/nvidia-
20:27
Visualizing how VLMs work - https://huggingface.co/blog/not-lain/vlms
24:18
NanoVLM - https://github.com/yuvalkirstain/NanoVLM
24:47
Case study: Basketball player tracking - https://blog.roboflow.com/identify-ba
31:29
When LoRA matches full fine-tuning - https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/lora/
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