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Part 2: AI winters, when the hype ran out of money

I ask myself if this time AI is different, if the 2026 hype is going to last. And every time, I remember this question has already been asked before. Twice, actually, and both times the answer was no, the money ran out and the labs pulled down the shutters. This chapter is the story of […]

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Part 4: The minimum math you need to understand AI

Before we get into classic machine learning, neural networks, and language models, this chapter takes a different shape: no history, no philosophy, just the minimum toolkit of math for AI you need for the rest of the series to actually click. No heavy formulas, no exams, no flashbacks to university. Just the intuition behind three […]

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Part 5: Supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning

Three different ways to learn: with correct answers, without them, or by trial and error. Three ways to learn In 1959, IBM engineer Arthur Samuel published a paper with a title that sounds obvious today and was a complete novelty back then: “Some Studies in Machine Learning Using the Game of Checkers.” That’s where the […]

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