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AI Journey

The public log of a transition from systems programming to AI — math, ML fundamentals and end-to-end projects, with one rule: never train a model I can’t explain.

Timeline2026 — ongoing
RoleSelf-directed curriculum
TeamSolo
ContextOpen log
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A structured roadmap from foundations to research: advanced Python and algorithms, the math for AI (linear algebra, calculus, probability, optimization), classical machine learning, then deep learning with PyTorch — each stage with notes, exercises and implementations, logged day by day.

Current focus: Trail, a portfolio bot. The V1 intent classifier is trained by hand — TF-IDF + logistic regression, F1 macro 0.629 on 5-fold cross-validation — and is being integrated behind a FastAPI endpoint with a confidence threshold and a response policy.

House rules: clean, documented code; every project ships with results and conclusions; fundamentals over hype.