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AI Bites: The Academic Series

Jack Lakkapragada

Welcome to AI Bites. This podcast features AI-generated deep dives into the world’s most prestigious computer science curricula. Based on personal study notes and publicly available course material from Stanford University (CS124, CS221, and more), these episodes use Google’s NotebookLM to transform dense academic topics into conversational summaries. Perfect for learning on the go, whether you"re commuting or at the gym. Disclaimer: This is an independent, AI-generated study resource and is not

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00:01:18

VIDEO SHORT | MIT 6.036: Feature Representation

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2026/09/24

How does AI draw a straight line through data that isn't straight? It cheats by adding another dimension. Learn the foundational feature transformation trick that powers modern machine learning in under 60 seconds.Key Topics:The limitations of linear classifiers.The $\phi(x) = [x, x^2]$ parabola trick.Why data representation matters more than the algorithm.Disclaimer: Note: This is an AI-generated discussion created using Google's NotebookLM, Gemini, and other AI tools, based on the freely

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00:12:18

VIDEO | MIT 6.036: Feature Representation

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2026/09/24

Watch the math come to life in Week 3 of MIT 6.036. When a straight line fails to separate our data, we don't change the line—we change the space. We visually animate the math behind feature transformations, showing how flat 1D data bends into 2D parabolas, and break down the matrix mathematics of encoding discrete categories like text and blood types into numeric vectors.Key Topics:Animating the XOR "drosophila" dataset.Visualizing the $\phi(x)$ transformation trick step-by-step.How

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00:23:00

EP 59 | MIT 6.036: Feature Representation

AI Bites: The Academic Series ·

2026/09/24

Welcome to Week 3 of MIT 6.036! What happens when a linear classifier encounters a problem that can't be solved with a straight line? You change the shape of the universe. This week, we explore the "High-Dimensional Transformation Trick," tackle the infamous XOR problem, and learn why feature engineering—like transforming blood types into factored vectors—is the true secret weapon of machine learning engineers.Key Topics:The XOR problem and the limitations of linear

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00:01:22

VIDEO SHORT | MIT 6.036: The Perceptron Algorithm

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2026/09/15

It sounds like a 1960s robot, but the Perceptron is actually the grandfather of modern neural networks. Learn how this elegant, error-correcting algorithm guarantees a perfect decision boundary in under 60 seconds.Key Topics:Frank Rosenblatt and the 1960s Perceptron.The genius of error-driven learning.The linear separability guarantee.Disclaimer: Note: This is an AI-generated discussion created using Google's NotebookLM, Gemini, and other AI tools, based on the freely and publicly available MIT

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00:07:08

VIDEO | MIT 6.036: The Perceptron Algorithm

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2026/09/15

Watch the math come to life in Week 2 of MIT 6.036. We take the Perceptron algorithm out of the textbook and put it onto a 2D coordinate plane. See exactly how a decision boundary shifts, rotates, and corrects itself every time it makes a mistake, culminating in a visual breakdown of the famous Convergence Proof.Key Topics:Animating the mathematical update rule.Visualizing the geometric "tug-of-war" of misclassified points.Transforming a 1D dataset into a 2D space to bypass offset

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00:24:18

EP 58 | MIT 6.036: The Perceptron Algorithm

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2026/09/15

Welcome to Week 2 of MIT 6.036! This week, we graduate from random guessing to one of the most historically significant learning algorithms in computer science: The Perceptron. We explore its biological roots in the 1940s, break down the brilliant simplicity of its geometric update rule, and walk step-by-step through the elegant mathematical proof that guarantees it will find a perfect boundary.Key Topics:The biological history and design of the Perceptron.Mathematical intuition behind the

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00:01:12

VIDEO SHORT | MIT 6.036: Is Your AI Learning or...

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2026/08/30

If a machine memorizes all the training data but fails on new inputs, did it actually learn anything? Discover the "Homework vs. Exam" analogy that defines the most critical engineering challenge in all of machine learning: generalization over memorization.Key Topics:Training Error vs. Test Error.The danger of model overfitting.Why generalization is the holy grail of artificial intelligence.Disclaimer: Note: This is an AI-generated discussion created using Google's NotebookLM, Gemini,

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00:07:55

VIDEO | MIT 6.036: Visualizing Linear Classifiers &...

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2026/08/30

See the math come to life in our first visual breakdown of MIT 6.036. We illustrate the fundamental architecture of machine learning models before dropping into a 2D coordinate plane to manually draw out a separating hyperplane, proving exactly how linear algorithms decide what is positive and what is negative.Key Topics:Visual maps of Supervised, Unsupervised, and Reinforcement Learning pipelines.Plotting feature vectors and the spatial geometry of decision boundaries.Step-by-step matrix

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00:21:23

EP 57 | MIT 6.036: Foundations of ML & Linear...

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2026/08/30

Welcome to MIT 6.036! We kick off our machine learning journey by tackling a deep philosophical paradox: how can we reliably predict the future using only data from the past? Join us as we dissect the "problem of induction," explore the six core characteristics of ML problem classes, and jump into the elegant 2D geometry of Linear Classifiers to understand how algorithms draw boundaries.Key Topics:The core differences between Machine Learning, Statistics, and Social Sciences.The 6

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00:17:39

VIDEO | CS224N: The Complete Course in 20 Minutes

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2026/08/17

The ultimate high-yield visual recap of Stanford’s CS224N (Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning)! In just 20 minutes, we cover the full 15-module arc of the course—from the birth of word vectors to modern reasoning models and the smart scaling era.Key Topics Covered:Word Embeddings & Recurrent Networks: From distributional semantics and Word2Vec to backpropagation, RNNs, and sequence-to-sequence bottlenecks.The Transformer & Pretraining Revolution: Self-attention mechanics, BPE

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00:01:31

SHORT | CS224N: Open areas in NLP

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2026/08/14

The grand finale of CS224N! In this final NotebookLM Video Short, we take a visual look at the "David vs. Goliath" revolution happening in AI reasoning.Key Topics:Smart Scaling vs. Brute-Force: Why the era of throwing $100M+ at massive pre-training runs is hitting a data wall.ProRL & Entropy Control: A visual breakdown of how prolonged reinforcement learning lets a 1.5B parameter model out-reason models 4.5$\times$ its size.The Future of Intelligence: Why AI capability isn't about

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00:22:07

EP 56 | CS224N: Open Frontiers in NLP & The Smart...

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2026/08/14

Welcome to the grand finale of CS224N! In our final episode, featuring insights from Professor Yejin Choi, we tackle the biggest open frontier in AI: what happens when high-quality web data runs out? We explore why the era of brute-force scaling is officially over, and how small language models (1.5B–7B parameters) are using "smart scaling" to out-reason 100B+ giants.Key Topics:The End of Brute-Force Scaling: Why internet text is the "fossil fuel" of AI, and why Ilya Sutskever

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00:01:21

SHORT VIDEO | CS224N: Multimodality

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2026/07/29

A bite-sized, visual breakdown of CS224N's guest lecture on Multimodal Deep Learning! In this NotebookLM Video Short, we look at how models fake visual intelligence, and the craziest new frontier in AI.Key Topics:Evaluation Cheats: A visual look at how models cheat on visual tests (like the "pizza slice" flaw), and why state-of-the-art models completely fail basic compositional logic on the Winoground test (e.g., "mug in grass" vs. "grass in a mug").Olfactory Embeddings: A quick look at how

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00:23:41

EP 55 | CS224N: Multimodality

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2026/07/29

What happens when an AI can see, hear, and even smell? In this episode, featuring insights from former Meta FAIR and Hugging Face researcher Douwe Kiela, we break out of the text-only box. We explore the impending "data ceiling" of the internet, how neural networks mathematically fuse different senses together, and the mind-bending frontier of olfactory embeddings.Key Topics:The Multimodal Imperative: Why the internet is running out of high-quality text, and how the human McGurk effect

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SHORT VIDEO | CS224N: Social Impacts of NLP

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2026/07/10

A bite-sized, visual breakdown of CS224N Lecture 16! In this NotebookLM Video Short, we pull back the curtain on why models are mathematically forced to lie, and how AI is subtly homogenizing human thought.Key Topics:The Good-Turing Proof: A visual explanation of the missing mass math ($p_0$) that physically forces perfectly calibrated models to output plausible falsehoods.The Creativity Paradox: Visualizing the "Helicopter Drop-off" analogy, and looking at the data showing how AI raises

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SHORT VIDEO | CS224N: Interpretability

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2026/07/10

A bite-sized, visual breakdown of CS224N's guest lecture with Dr. Been Kim! In this NotebookLM Video Short, we look at the mathematical failure of our current interpretability tools and how researchers are extracting alien concepts from AI.Key Topics:The Saliency Illusion: A visual look at the True Positive vs. False Positive graph, proving why popular AI explanation tools (like SHAP) are no better than random guessing.The ROME Paradox: Visualizing the massive disconnect between where a fact

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00:21:17

EP 54 | CS224N: Social and broader impacts of NLP

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2026/07/10

We are stepping away from optimizer tricks to tackle the downstream social and cognitive impacts of language models. Featuring Professor Yejin Choi's lecture, we explore the mathematical inevitability of AI hallucinations, how AI is quietly homogenizing human creativity, and the Constitutional AI frameworks being built to keep these systems aligned.Key Topics:The Hallucination Math: Why scaling up compute won't stop hallucinations. We explain the Good-Turing estimator and the mathematical

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EP 53 | CS224N: Model Interpretability & Editing

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2026/07/10

How do we communicate with an AI that thinks in alien, superhuman concepts? In this episode, featuring insights from Google Brain’s Dr. Been Kim, we explore the massive gap between what we think machines know and what they actually know. We expose the fatal flaws in our current interpretability tools and look at how researchers are extracting brand-new strategies from AI to teach the World Chess Champion.Key Topics:The Illusion of Saliency Maps: The shocking mathematical proof that popular

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00:01:43

Video Short: Tokenization & Multilinguality

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2026/07/02

A bite-sized, visual breakdown of CS224N Lecture 14! In this new NotebookLM Video Short, we pull back the curtain on the invisible preprocessing layer of modern AI: Tokenization.Key Topics:The "Strawberry" Problem: A visual look at why ChatGPT can't count letters or spell backwards due to opaque token chunks.The Multilingual Tax: A direct comparison showing how English-biased tokenizers shatter non-English prompts (like Thai or Somali) into dozens of inefficient fragments, forcing

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EP 52 | CS224N: Tokenization & Multilinguality

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2026/07/02

Language models do not actually read text—they read tokens. In this episode, we explore the invisible preprocessing layer that Andrej Karpathy says is "at the heart of much weirdness of LLMs." We demystify the Tokenization problem, explain why your AI can't count letters, and discuss the massive socio-economic inequalities baked into modern AI pricing.Key Topics:The BPE Algorithm: How Byte Pair Encoding finds the "Goldilocks" zone between infinite character sequences and

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