Slides¶
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Module 1 — Foundations¶
| Topic | |
|---|---|
| Language models and Transformers (Weeks 1–2) | |
| Transformer, decoding, KV cache, prompt engineering (Week 3) | |
| Pre-training, scaling laws, fine-tuning, code tutorial (Week 4) | |
| ClarifyCoder, RLHF, PPO, DPO, reasoning models, Codex (Week 5) | |
| RAG, Elasticsearch 101, RAG failure points, DocPrompting, agents, tool use, MCP, ReAct, Reflexion (Week 7) |