Synthesis Layer

Five Pillars

Use pillars when you want the map before the territory: the same notebooks can serve a learner, a researcher, or a professor, but each needs a different scale of orientation.

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Route Logic

A pillar should feel like a conceptual zoom level.

It starts with a research question, names the mathematical pattern, and hands the learner to a notebook where the idea becomes testable.
FramePillars explain why a topic matters.

They keep the big mathematical story visible before a learner drops into a single concept page.

Read the vision
EnterDomains turn a pillar into a route.

Each pillar points toward notebooks with prerequisites, code witnesses, demos, and AI companion context.

Browse domains
ConnectThe graph keeps cross-links honest.

When a pillar crosses into another field, the graph should reveal the edge instead of hiding the jump.

Open graph
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The architecture of memory and attention

Sequence Modeling

y = softmax(QK^T / sqrt(d))VMove from recurrence to attention to state-space models, watching how different architectures remember, retrieve, and compress context.
AttentionSSMsMambaMemory
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Navigating the loss landscape

Optimization

theta <- theta - eta grad L(theta)Treat training as dynamics: gradients, curvature, stability, averaging, and the practical geometry that makes models learn.
SGDAdamMuonSharpness
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Diffusion, flow, and the geometry of data

Generative Physics

dx = f(x,t)dt + g(t)dWSee generation as transport: noisy particles, score fields, flow matching, and probability paths becoming manipulable systems.
DiffusionFlow MatchingScoreSDEs
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Symmetry as inductive bias

Geometric Deep Learning

f(rho(g)x) = rho'(g)f(x)Use symmetry to explain why architecture should respect the structure of the data, from grids to graphs to manifolds.
EquivarianceGNNsSymmetryLie Groups
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Reverse-engineering neural computation

Mechanistic Interpretability

x ~= sum_i a_i f_iConnect representations to mechanisms: features, superposition, circuits, probes, and interventions that make models inspectable.
SAEsCircuitsFeaturesProbing