​Each Wednesday, the AI by Hand team is offering workshops to teach AI by Hand to learners around the world.

​🔥 New: For the price of one workshop, you are invited to stay and audit other workshops on the same day.

​Student Discount: If you are a student and can not afford the full price, DM Prof. Tom Yeh on LinkedIn to introduce yourself and receive a 75%-off discount coupon.

​Beginner Workshop

​​This workshop is designed for beginners to build a math foundation for deep learning, covering ​1. Dot Product, ​2. Matrix Multiplication, ​3. Linear Layer, ​4. Activation, and ​5. Artificial Neuron.

​​Transformer Workshop

​​This intermediate workshop is designed for AI engineers who understand how to use Transformer models, but still treat them as a black box. ​By visualizing the data flow and operations step-by-step in Excel, you’ll gain a deep understanding of how the math works, how information moves through each layer, and how the dimensions of all components align.

​SOTA Workshop

​​In this workshop, you'll dive into a cutting-edge model, architecture, or algorithm recently published. ​You'll work through brand-new AI by Hand style exercises, crafted specifically for this workshop. These are not available anywhere else—because you’ll be working at the state of the art!

​​This week we will cover "NDLinear" published by Ensemble AI in March 2025. ​Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17353

​Agent Workshop

​This advanced workshop is for those already experienced with AI agents who want to sharpen their architectural thinking through a “by hand ✍️” approach. Using pen and paper, we’ll sketch and compare Model-Context Protocol (MCP) and Function Calling, focusing on high-level principles such as context management, modularity, and control flow. By working through these paradigms visually and manually, you will gain a clearer, more intuitive grasp of how agent systems are structured.

​Exercises

​Here is a preview of the exercises you will go over in each workshop.

​Experience

​​We will meet on a virtual roof using Gather Town.

​Testimonials

​​"Thanks for the transformer session today let by Leo and Anna. Really enjoyed it and could follow up almost all of it due to how planned the excel sheet was!" ~ Ravi

​​"Thank you Prof. Yeh, Leo and Anna for the such an interactive session! I was able to understand the concepts of transformer very clearly. Looking forward to meet in upcoming sessions!" ~ Leema

​​"The session was nice and instructors were patient to explain it step by step." ~ Harish

​"Amazing session! Thanks" ~ Willard

​"I have attended exceptional sessions on AI by hand related to Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. They have uniquely demonstrated on to execute AI concepts like transformers , NDLinear algorithm" ~ Sai

​"Thank you Melton! it was a great session and you are a great teacher!" ~ Katy