Learning Area
The central entry point to all learning content — guided or free, whatever you prefer.
The Foundation
For users with no prior knowledge. If you can operate a computer, start here.
Operation & Command Line
How a computer works, what APIs are, how to use a terminal, set up a development environment, use Git, and understand open source.
You understand how computers work, navigate the terminal confidently, use Git and understand open source.
How a Computer "Thinks"
CPU, GPU, RAM, hard drive and binary code — the hardware basics.
The Internet & APIs
Client, server, HTTP requests and APIs as interfaces.
The Terminal
GUI vs. CLI, paths and the most important commands.
Your Development Environment
Editor, IDE and everything around them: set up the place where ideas become files.
Version Control with Git
Repository, commit, branch and GitHub as cloud storage.
Open Source vs. Closed Source
Source code, licenses (GPL, MIT) and why transparency matters.
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Python & Programming Logic
From variables through control structures and functions to classes, packages and virtual environments.
You program in Python, understand data types, control structures, OOP and set up clean development environments.
Variables & Data Types
String, integer, float, boolean and assignments.
Control Structures
If/else branches and loops (for, while).
Functions
Parameters, return values and modular code.
When Code Breaks (Errors & Debugging)
Syntax error vs. logic error, try/catch and reading stack traces.
Lists & Dictionaries
Arrays, key-value stores and index-based access.
Object-Oriented Programming (Classes & Objects)
Class, object, method and attribute — the blueprint for complex code.
External Code Libraries (Packages)
Pip, dependencies, import — don't reinvent the wheel.
The Isolation Bubble (Virtual Environments / Docker)
venv, containers and reproducible environments.
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The Workshop
Practice for makers. Focus on application, tools and modern workflows.
Generative Art (Images & Video)
Image generation, Stable Diffusion, LoRA, ControlNet and workflow optimization.
You generate your own images with Stable Diffusion, understand text-to-image and master LoRA, ControlNet and upscaling.
Image Generation (From Text to Pixel)
Text-to-image, prompting and seed (random value).
The Tool (Stable Diffusion Forge)
UI, local VRAM and generation speed.
Control & Finetuning
LoRA, inpainting and outpainting.
Workflow Optimization
ControlNet (poses, edges) and upscaling.
GANs - Interactive Demo
Experience interactively how GANs generate images.
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Local Language Models
The Hugging Face ecosystem, running models locally and understanding quantization.
You understand Hugging Face, bring models to your PC and understand quantization.
The Ecosystem (Hugging Face)
Available from Sep 23, 2026
Bringing Models to Your PC
Available from Sep 23, 2026
Quantization (Shrinking Models)
Available from Sep 23, 2026
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Agents & Automation
System prompts, prompt engineering, RAG, function calling, APIs and no-code workflows.
You create system prompts, build RAG pipelines, use function calling and automate workflows with n8n.
Giving the Model a Task (System Prompts)
System prompt, roleplay, one-shot vs. few-shot.
Prompt Engineering (Chain of Thought)
Zero-shot, chain-of-thought and hallucination avoidance.
Connecting Your Own Data (RAG)
Retrieval-augmented generation, chunking, embeddings and vector database.
Function Calling (When AI Pushes Buttons)
JSON output, tool use — the AI decides which tool to execute.
Using Interfaces (APIs & MCP)
API key, Model Context Protocol and server architecture for AI agents.
No-Code Workflows (n8n)
Trigger, node, workflow automation and webhooks.
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AI in Software Development
Vibecoding, context engineering, harness engineering and agentic coding — the new way to program.
You program with AI, master context engineering, build the environment around the agent and use autonomous coding agents.
Natural Language Programming (Vibecoding)
Available from Oct 21, 2026
Context Engineering
Available from Oct 21, 2026
Harness Engineering (Guardrails Instead of Hope)
Available from Oct 21, 2026
Agentic Coding (AIs That Type Themselves)
Available from Oct 21, 2026
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Software Quality & Testing
Read tests, make sense of machine checks, sign off on changes and protect secrets — quality without programming skills.
You read a test and see what it actually checks, make sense of red machine checks, ask an agent the three questions whose answers you can verify yourself, and know what must never enter a repository.
Understanding tests when the agent writes them
Available from Nov 18, 2026
Gates: the safety net made of machine checks
Available from Nov 18, 2026
Reviewing Without Knowing How to Program
Available from Nov 18, 2026
Secrets & Security: What Must Never Go Into a Repository
Available from Nov 18, 2026
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The Academy
The in-depth computer science track. Equivalent to AI modules in a CS degree, but accessible.
Computer Science Structures & Algorithms
What algorithms are, how they scale and which data structures drive computer science.
You understand algorithms, Big-O notation, recursion and the key data structures (linear, hierarchical, key-based).
What is an Algorithm?
Determinism, finiteness, input/output — the recipe of the machines.
Algorithmic Complexity (Big-O)
Understanding scaling: linear, quadratic, exponential.
Data Structures I (Linear)
Array, linked list, stack, queue.
Recursion
Base case, recursive call and stack overflow — loops on steroids.
Data Structures II (Hierarchical & Networked)
Tree, binary search tree, graph, node, edge.
Data Structures III (Key-Based)
Hash table, key-value pair and caching.
Travelling Salesman — When Trying Everything Takes Too Long
This path's first demo: find the shortest tour through many cities — an NP-hard problem that exposes the limits of brute force and why we need clever heuristics like simulated annealing.
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Mathematics of Data
Statistics and probability as the foundation for machine learning.
You understand measures of central tendency, dispersion, distributions, correlation, probability and Bayes' theorem.
Measures of Central Tendency (Where's the Middle?)
Mean, median and outliers.
Dispersion (How Far from the Middle?)
Variance, standard deviation and range.
Distributions (The Shape of Data)
Normal distribution, skewness and long-tail.
Connections Between Data
Correlation, causation and confounders.
Probability & Expected Value
Probability, expected value and risk/reward calculations.
Bayes & Conditional Probability
Bayes' theorem: updating beliefs with new evidence.
Naive Bayes - Interactive Demo
Classify texts live with the Naive Bayes algorithm.
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Linear Algebra & Calculus
Vectors, matrices, tensors, derivatives and the chain rule — the language of deep learning.
You understand vectors, matrices, tensors, derivatives, partial derivatives and the chain rule as the foundation for backpropagation.
Spaces and Directions (Vectors)
Scalar, vector, dimensionality and vector space.
Data Tables & Transformations (Matrices)
Matrix, matrix multiplication, transformation and dot product.
Tensors (The Language of GPUs)
Tensor as n-dimensional array, batching and shape.
Measuring Change (Derivatives)
Slope, rate of change and minima/maxima.
Partial Derivatives & The Gradient
Multi-dimensional slope and the gradient vector.
Nested Functions (Chain Rule)
Function composition and the chain rule — the precursor to backpropagation.
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Classical, Symbolic AI
From Turing through search, heuristics and game theory to expert systems and the AI winter.
You understand the roots of AI, navigate state spaces, master pathfinding and game theory, and know the lessons of the AI winter.
The Birth of AI (From Turing to Dartmouth)
Turing test, Dartmouth Conference (1956), ELIZA — the historical framework.
Graph Search
State space, breadth-first search (BFS) and depth-first search (DFS).
Heuristics & Pathfinding
Heuristic, cost function, Dijkstra and the A* algorithm.
A* Pathfinding - Interactive Demo
Watch A* and Dijkstra in action navigating through a maze.
OptionalAgents in Conflict (Game Theory)
Multi-agent systems, zero-sum games and Nash equilibrium.
MinMax & Pruning
Decision tree, MinMax strategy and alpha-beta pruning.
MinMax - Interactive Demo
Play Tic-Tac-Toe against an unbeatable MinMax AI.
OptionalRules & Logic (Expert Systems)
Expert system, inference engine, if-then rules and combinatorial explosion.
Rule-Based AI - Interactive Demo
Experience interactively how an expert system forms logical causal chains.
OptionalELIZA Chatbot - Interactive Demo
Chat with the first rule-based therapist bot in history.
OptionalThe AI Winter (Failure & Lessons)
Lighthill Report, overhyped promises and why symbolic AI failed at complexity.
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Machine Learning Fundamentals
The paradigm shift: from programming to training — supervised, unsupervised and evaluation tools.
You understand ML paradigms, train supervised learning models, evaluate with metrics and know overfitting and unsupervised learning.
Programming vs. Training
Machine learning, training data, model and inference.
Supervised Learning (Learning with a Teacher)
Label, features, target, classification vs. regression.
Linear & Logistic Regression
Line of best fit, sigmoid and error function (MSE).
The Raw Material (Data Engineering)
Feature engineering, missing values and normalization.
Parameters vs. Hyperparameters
What the AI learns itself vs. what humans set.
When the Student Memorizes
Overfitting, underfitting, train-test split and validation set.
Evaluating Models
Accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score and confusion matrix.
Unsupervised Learning (Structure in Chaos)
Clustering (k-means), dimensionality reduction (PCA) and anomaly detection.
Supervised Learning - Interactive Demo
Train a model and watch the decision boundary.
OptionalDecision Tree — the Glass-Box Classifier
Watch a tree of yes/no questions carve up the data — and see it tip into overfitting when it asks too many. The most transparent algorithm in the ML toolkit.
OptionalK-Means Clustering - Interactive Demo
Watch K-Means sort data points into groups.
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Deep Learning (The Neural Revolution)
From the artificial neuron through activation, hidden layers and loss functions to gradient descent and backpropagation.
You understand neural networks from the perceptron to backpropagation and can follow the complete training process.
The Artificial Neuron
Perceptron, weights, bias and summation.
Perceptron - Interactive Demo
Train the simplest neural network step by step.
OptionalThe Spark (Activation)
Linearity vs. non-linearity, ReLU and sigmoid.
The Network (Hidden Layers)
Deep neural network, hidden layer and forward pass.
Neural Network Playground - Interactive Demo
Build your own network architectures, train live and see backpropagation in action.
OptionalHow AI Calculates How Wrong It Is
Loss function, mean squared error and cross-entropy.
The Path to the Valley (Gradient Descent)
Gradient descent, learning rate and local/global minimum.
Gradient Descent - Interactive Demo
Watch the optimizer descend into the valley — step by step.
OptionalThe Heart of Learning (Backpropagation)
Backpropagation and error feedback — building on the chain rule.
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Modern Architectures (GenAI)
From tokenization through embeddings, CNNs, RNNs and transformers to LLMs, transfer learning and diffusion.
You understand tokenization, embeddings, CNNs, RNNs, transformers, LLMs, transfer learning, sampling and diffusion.
Tokenization (The Alphabet of Machines)
Token, BPE, context window — why AI doesn't understand syllables.
Embeddings & Latent Space
Word2Vec, embedding vectors and semantic distance.
Word Embeddings — Meaning as a Map
The interactive companion to the embeddings chapter: words become points, similar terms cluster, and king - man + woman lands on queen. This is what vector semantics feels like.
OptionalComputer Vision (CNNs)
Convolution, filter/kernel, pooling and feature extraction.
Convolutional Filter - Interactive Demo
See how CNN filters detect edges, textures and patterns in real time.
OptionalTime & Sequences (RNNs)
Sequence data, recurrent neural networks and vanishing gradient.
The Breakthrough (Transformers & Attention)
Self-attention, query/key/value and the transformer block.
Attention Mechanism - Interactive Demo
Understand query/key/value step by step — the heart of every transformer.
OptionalLarge Language Models (LLMs)
Foundation model, pre-training, next-token prediction and parameter size.
Transfer Learning & Fine-Tuning
Pre-trained weights, checkpoints and LoRA.
Sampling & Temperature
Softmax, temperature, top-K/top-P — why ChatGPT doesn't always say the same thing.
Generative Image Models (Diffusion)
Latent space, noise, denoising and text-to-image.
GANs - Interactive Demo
Experience interactively how GANs generate images.
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Reinforcement Learning
Learning through reward: from the basic principle through Q-Learning to RLHF.
You understand reinforcement learning, MDP, Q-learning and RLHF — how ChatGPT learns politeness.
Carrot and Stick (The Principle)
Available from Oct 7, 2026
Multi-Armed Bandit - Interactive Demo
Face the exploration vs. exploitation dilemma at the slot machine.
OptionalDeveloping Strategies (Q-Learning & MDPs)
Available from Oct 7, 2026
Q-Learning - Interactive Demo
Watch an agent find the exit using Q-Learning.
OptionalRLHF (How LLMs Learn Politeness)
Available from Oct 7, 2026
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Society & Inclusion
Societal and legal implications, tailored to specific target groups.
Ethics & Myths
Consciousness, bias, copyright and prompt injections — the critical questions around AI.
You distinguish AGI from stochastics, understand training bias analytically, know copyright questions and prompt injection risks.
Consciousness vs. Probability
AGI, sentience and the stochastic parrot.
Bias & Data Quality
Training bias, impossibility theorem, signal vs. noise.
Copyright & Data Theft
Fair use, opt-out and copyright in training data.
Security & Prompt Injections
Jailbreaks, data exfiltration and how language models are tricked.
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Europe & Law
EU AI Act, regulation of foundation models and data protection in AI applications.
You understand the EU AI Act, transparency obligations for foundation models and GDPR implications for AI.
The EU AI Act
Available from Nov 4, 2026
Regulation of Foundation Models
Available from Nov 4, 2026
Data Protection & AI (GDPR)
Available from Nov 4, 2026
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For Seniors (AI in Everyday Life)
A digital helper, online safety and maintaining sovereignty.
You use AI as an everyday helper, recognize fraud schemes and maintain control over your data.
A Digital Helper
Voice assistant, translation and reading aloud.
First AI Contact - Interactive Demo
A safe first conversation with a simple chatbot.
OptionalSafety & Fraud Protection
Grandchild scam 2.0, voice cloning and phishing detection.
Email Shield - Interactive Demo
Experience how a spam filter detects suspicious emails.
OptionalMaintaining Sovereignty
Opting out from providers and controlling data sharing.
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For Students
Learning with AI instead of cheating, recognizing deepfakes and critically checking sources.
You use AI as a learning tutor, recognize deepfakes and synthetic media and critically verify sources.
Learning with AI (Instead of Cheating)
Socratic dialogue, learning tutor and critically questioning hallucinations.
Truth on the Internet
Deepfakes, source verification and synthetic media.
Cars Learn to Drive - Interactive Demo
Watch cars learn to navigate a racetrack through neuroevolution. Drive yourself and compare with the AI.
OptionalPlay Against the Computer - Interactive Demo
Compete against an AI that selects the best move using MinMax.
OptionalThe Oldest Chatbot - Interactive Demo
Chat with ELIZA, the first chatbot in history.
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Second Brain & Digital Twins
Organize knowledge outside your head — and understand what digital replicas of real things can do and where their limits are.
You will set up your own second brain instead of collecting notes you never read again, and explain what separates a digital twin from a mere simulation.
Second Brain: Your External Memory
Available from Dec 2, 2026
Digital Twins
Available from Dec 2, 2026
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Curiosities
A growing showcase of demos that don't fit any single subject path — classics, curiosities, charming outliers.
Curiosities
A home for demos that don't belong to any other path — classics, curiosities, charming outliers. A growing showcase without a shared curriculum. Sometimes one moves into a subject path, sometimes a new one joins.
A curated handful of standalone demos — a stroll for the curious. No homework, just exploration.