[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":230},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-47036063":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":5,"line_source":6,"title":7,"url":8,"domain":9,"maker":10,"posted_at":11,"year":12,"points":13,"comments":14,"rank_in_year":15,"shown_in_year":16,"top":17,"tier":18,"category":19,"subcategory":20,"format":21,"keywords":22,"reception":27,"sentiment":28,"stance_mix":29,"scored_comments":32,"aspects":33,"strip":36,"post_text":38,"what":39,"said":65,"maker_in_thread":120,"shape":130,"grid":134,"attempts":193,"same_week":194,"maker_shows":37,"maker_hidden":223,"reader_version":224,"card":225},"47036063","Maths, CS and AI Compendium","title","Show HN: Maths, CS and AI Compendium","https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002FHenryNdubuaku\u002Fmaths-cs-ai-compendium","github.com","HenryNdubuaku",1771254950,2026,88,26,775,4366,18,"notable","learning_science","open textbook","other",[23,24,25,20,26],"maths textbook","intuition first","machine learning theory","linear algebra","curious",0.25,{"positive":30,"neutral":30,"mixed":31,"critical":31},3,0,6,{"docs":34},{"positive":35,"critical":31},2,[31,31,31,37,31,30,31,30,37,31,37,30,31,31,31,31,31,31,31,31,31,31,31,31,31,31,31],5,"Hey HN, I don’t know who else has the same issue, but:\n\nTextbooks often bury good ideas in dense notation, skip the intuition, assume you already know half the material, and get outdated in fast-moving fields like AI.\n\nOver the past 7 years of my AI\u002FML experience, I filled notebooks with intuition-first, real-world context, no hand-waving explanations of maths, computing and AI concepts.\n\nIn 2024, a few friends used these notes to prep for interviews at DeepMind, OpenAI, Nvidia etc. They all got in and currently perform well in their roles. 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