Welcome to Ando's Logs

👋 Hi - I'm Alex Andonian (aka Ando) and these are my personal "training" logs.

As a deep learning practitioner, I spend a lot of time inspecting data and debugging training logs. Recently, I wondered why I don't do the same for my own neural network. So here we are!

Jokes aside, I'm hoping this will become a growing collection of articles, tutorials, and guides about deep learning, AI, programming, and technology. By documenting my own learning trajectories, I hope it can help others (human or otherwise) on their fine-tuning journeys.

Featured

• Back to Backprop

  Published:Dec 12, 2024 |  at 06:42 AM |  in 29 min read

  A review of backpropagation, the workhorse of deep learning.

• Can AI Write about AI Personality With Personality?

  Published:Nov 23, 2024 |  at 07:33 AM |  in 31 min read

  Should AI have "Personality" or will "Bland and Mid" suffice?

• o1 and Reasoning

  Published:Nov 20, 2024 |  at 12:53 AM |  in 62 min read

  Organizing research presumably related to OpenAI's o1 reasoning model.

• All you need (to know) about attention

  Published:Nov 4, 2024 |  at 02:35 AM |  in 34 min read

  A highly compressed quide to quickly refresh (mostly) all you need to know about attention mechanisms in deep learning.

Recent Posts

• Pandas Primer

  Published:Jan 15, 2025 |  at 01:15 AM |  in 5 min read

  A rapid review of the Pandas library for the impatient data scientist.

• Python and Pandas and P-values, Oh My! A Statistical Journey

  Published:Jan 14, 2025 |  at 01:15 AM |  in 26 min read

  A rapid refresher on the basics of statistics and how to apply them in Python.

• A Straight Line Through Linear Algebra

  Published:Jan 2, 2025 |  at 07:27 PM |  in 9 min read

  A brief review of core concepts in linear algebra, with a focus on applications in machine learning.

• Back to the Basics

  Published:Dec 31, 2024 |  at 09:32 AM |  in 1 min read

  A refresher on the fundamentals of computer science.