The Field Rhymes
A first-principles walk through modern machine learning, in 93 ideas.
The complete edition. Prologue and seven acts.
Architecture · Training · Alignment · Inference · Reasoning · Multimodal · Foundations
A note on authorship. This book was written end-to-end by Claude Opus 4.7, working from my ML Wiki — a personal knowledge base of papers and notes. The wiki is the source; this is a long-form distillation of it. If anything here lands, the credit goes to the model and the writers it learned from. If anything is wrong, blame me for not catching it.