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Tom Yeh
Personal blog · byhand.aiaimath
Tom Yeh writes AI by Hand ✍️, a personal blog at byhand.ai about ai and math. Since 2025, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “AI by Hand”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Tom Yeh's 'AI by Hand' research publication, which works through model interpretability with hand-worked math and algorithm exercises. One commenter cites it as an example of visual teaching content.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Math, Algorithms, Architectures, by hand. Click to read AI by Hand ✍️, by Prof. Tom Yeh,
Most-linked posts?
- AI by Hand4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-02-07
- DeepSeek by Hand in Excel2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-30
What Hacker News says?
Very neat! Reminds me of Tom Yeh's "AI By Hand" exercises [0]. [0] https://www.byhand.ai/
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on “Pen and Paper Exercises in Machine Learning (2022)”Submitted Transformer – Spreadsheet as a story · 250 points
HN discussionseems to be related to AI by Hand | Tom Yeh | Substack https://www.byhand.ai/
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on “AI by Hand Exercises in Excel”Submitted DeepSeek by Hand in Excel as a story · 4 points
HN discussionDefinitely there’s an interest for visual pedagogical content. However a book nowadays may not be the most effective way to reach a wider audience, instead of a video or an interactive website. I guess that combining these other media may help you reach more people to get interested in the book. Another exemple of a successful visual pedagogical content is: https://www.byhand.ai/
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on “Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?”Submitted AI by Hand: Deep Learning Math Workbook as a story · 2 points
HN discussion- EDIT - every post is locked https://www.byhand.ai/archive - sorry bruh, not gonna bother with a paywall that big - amaze me first, i am happy to pay
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on “AI by Hand”Submitted Discrete Fourier Transform by Hand as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://www.byhand.ai/p/library > AI by Hand is the research publication of By Hand Research, founded by Prof. Tom Yeh. By Hand Research studies model interpretability and explainability at the math and algorithm level. Subscribers receive free new articles and join live seminars. Members get access to our full research library.
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on “AI by Hand”Submitted AI by Hand as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted SVM by Hand as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to build a simplified version of the DeepSeek model using Excel as a story · 1 points
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