Reference
The syllabus, the instructor's introductory lecture notes, and the learning prompt.
Current syllabus (v09/15/26): format, motivation, the session-by-session schedule with presenter assignments, and the complete suggested-resources list.
PDF · 260 KBLecture 1 notes. What is a description? Purpose, medium and desirable properties of descriptions; models, data and metrics as descriptions.
PDF · 129 KBLecture 2 notes. Descriptions as vectors and embeddings; effective description as compression; LLMs as generative language models; agents; the hierarchical structure of models.
PDF · 224 KBHoshin's reusable teaching prompt — the scaffold he recommends for learning any topic from first principles, with running glossary and session notes.
PDF · 115 KBEvery file in the archive, deduplicated by content — 67 files, 203 MB in total. Use the readings page if you want them organized by topic.