{"slug": "ai-by-hand", "title": "AI by Hand", "summary": "Prof. Tom Yeh's AI by Hand newsletter published a series of seminars and tutorials on AI topics, including a July 8, 2026 seminar on Qwen 3.6, a May 7, 2026 seminar on Gemma 4, and a March 2, 2026 seminar covering PPO, DPO, GRPO, and Rubrics. The newsletter also released interactive workbooks and visualizations, such as an interactive edition of the Deep Learning Math Workbook and Self-Attention Flow, and featured an article co-authored with Jaime Teevan titled 'AI Isn't Human'.", "body_md": "AI by Hand ✍️\nSubscribe\nSign in\nHome\nFrontier\nFoundation\nLibrary\nQwen 3.6 ~ Recording\nAI by Hand ✍️ Seminars\nJul 8\n•\nProf. Tom Yeh\n43\n3\nFrontier\nView all\nQwen 3.6 ~ Recording\nAI by Hand ✍️ Seminars\nJul 8\n•\nProf. Tom Yeh\n43\n3\nGemma 4 (May 7, 2026)\nAI by Hand ✍️ Seminars\nMay 15\n•\nProf. Tom Yeh\n46\n7\n3\nFine-Tuning\nFine-tuning is how you turn a general-purpose pretrained model into something that actually does your task, and getting it right means knowing which…\nApr 24\n•\nProf. Tom Yeh\n46\n2\n2\nSwiGLU: The Activation Function Behind Frontier AI\nEssential AI Math Excel Blueprints\nMar 10\n•\nProf. Tom Yeh\n41\n1\n4\nPPO → DPO → GRPO → Rubrics (Mar 2, 2026)\nAI by Hand ✍️ Seminars\nMar 2\n•\nProf. Tom Yeh\n57\n1\n3\nPPO Clipped Policy Loss Algorithm\nFrontier AI Algorithm Blueprint Series\nFeb 25\n•\nProf. Tom Yeh\n33\n2\n4\nOpenClaw Seminar (Feb 23, 2026)\nAI by Hand ✍️ Seminars\nFeb 23\n•\nProf. Tom Yeh\n43\n4\n4\nDebouncing in OpenClaw - A Study Guide\nComputer Science in the Real World\nFeb 9\n•\nProf. Tom Yeh\n25\n1\nOpenClaw\nOnce upon a time, there was a lobster named Claw.\nFeb 5\n•\nProf. Tom Yeh\n55\n4\n3\nMeta Superintelligence Labs vs Facebook AI Research (Jan 30, 2026)\nAI by Hand ✍️ Seminars\nJan 30\n•\nProf. Tom Yeh\n21\nGoogle Ironwood TPU: From Bits to HBM (Jan 19, 2026)\nAI by Hand ✍️ Seminars\nJan 19\n•\nProf. Tom Yeh\n45\n1\nHow Small Models Learn Tool Use (Jan 11, 2026)\nAI by Hand ✍️ Seminars\nJan 11\n•\nProf. Tom Yeh\n38\n2\nSubscribe to receive new AI by Hand ✍️ content in your inbox!\nSubscribe\nFoundation\nView all\nAttention\n11 interactive diagrams\nMay 25\n•\nProf. Tom Yeh\n80\n1\nActivation chapter, complete: 12 interactive lessons\nGrowing up in Taiwan, nothing can activate my neurons as much as a cup of boba tea.\nMay 11\n•\nProf. Tom Yeh\n4\nActivation\n12 interactive lessons\nApr 30\n•\nProf. Tom Yeh\n8\nSingle vs Multi-Head Attention\nAttention: 9 of 11\nApr 27\n•\nProf. Tom Yeh\n11\nSelf Attention vs Cross Attention\nAttention: 5 of 11\nApr 25\n•\nProf. Tom Yeh\n9\nTwo New Interactive Workbooks ~ Matmul & Linear Layer\nThis week, I continued building the interactive version of my popular Deep Learning Math Workbook.\nApr 10\n•\nProf. Tom Yeh\n30\n1\n2\nMy Deep Learning Math Workbook — Now Interactive\nHappy to share something new: an interactive edition of my popular Deep Learning Math Workbook.\nApr 2\n•\nProf. Tom Yeh\n60\n13\n2\nSelf Attention Flow ~ New Release!\nBuilding upon Matmul Flow I released two weeks ago, I’d like to share with you Self-Attention Flow — my attempt to turn the self-attention diagram I’ve…\nMar 28\n•\nProf. Tom Yeh\n59\n2\n5\nMatmul Flow ~ New Visualization Tool\nAI by Hand ✍️ Academy\nMar 17\n•\nProf. Tom Yeh\n38\n5\nAI Isn't Human\nWhat becomes possible when we stop comparing AI to ourselves?\nMar 7\n•\nProf. Tom Yeh\nand\nJaime Teevan\n34\n1\n5\nGAN ~ draw by hand\nnot by AI\nFeb 27\n•\nProf. Tom Yeh\nand\nLuke Yeh\n56\n7\n1\nCNN ~ draw by hand ✍️\n“What should I do for my AI project?” my son asked me.\nFeb 16\n•\nProf. Tom Yeh\nand\nLuke Yeh\n63\n2\n2\nThis site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please\nturn on JavaScript\nor unblock scripts", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-by-hand", "canonical_source": "https://www.byhand.ai/", "published_at": "2026-08-14 15:58:59+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-14 16:15:57.290754+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning", "large-language-models", "ai-research", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Prof. Tom Yeh", "Qwen 3.6", "Gemma 4", "Jaime Teevan", "Meta Superintelligence Labs", "Facebook AI Research", "Google Ironwood TPU", "OpenClaw"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-by-hand", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-by-hand.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-by-hand.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-by-hand.jsonld"}}