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24 weeks · 10–14 hours/week

Learn the whole ML system.

All material is unlocked. Follow the core dependency path, accelerate through familiar lessons, or use a role track on the roadmap.

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01

Foundations

3 connected courses

COURSE 01WEEKS 1

Engineering foundations

A churn notebook cannot be reproduced by the teammate expected to ship it.

7 lessons · 1 production assignment
COURSE 02WEEKS 2–3

Problem framing, statistics & evaluation

An ETA model improves RMSE while increasing missed-delivery cost.

6 lessons · 1 production assignment
COURSE 03WEEKS 4–5

Data & feature foundations

Fraud labels arrive late and online features disagree with training data.

5 lessons · 1 production assignment
02

Classical ML

5 connected courses

COURSE 04WEEKS 6

Linear, probabilistic, neighbor & margin models

Support tickets need explainable routing under a 15 ms latency budget.

5 lessons · 1 production assignment
COURSE 05WEEKS 7

Trees, forests & gradient boosting

A marketplace must catch rare fraud without blocking trustworthy sellers.

5 lessons · 1 production assignment
COURSE 06WEEKS 8

Unsupervised learning, anomalies & retrieval

Novel equipment failures appear before reliable labels exist.

5 lessons · 1 production assignment
COURSE 07WEEKS 9

Forecasting & temporal ML

Regional demand shifts through promotions, holidays, and drift.

5 lessons · 1 production assignment
COURSE 08WEEKS 10

Recommendation, search & ranking

Marketplace ranking learns from biased clicks and reinforces its own mistakes.

5 lessons · 1 production assignment
03

Deep learning

3 connected courses

COURSE 09WEEKS 11–12

Neural networks from scratch

A nonlinear sensor classifier defeats every classical baseline.

7 lessons · 1 production assignment
COURSE 10WEEKS 13

Image ML

A factory has few positive examples of costly visual defects.

5 lessons · 1 production assignment
COURSE 11WEEKS 14

Sequence ML: RNNs, GRUs & LSTMs

Long support conversations must be routed while preserving temporal context.

5 lessons · 1 production assignment
04

Training systems

2 connected courses

COURSE 12WEEKS 15

GPU-aware training

Training repeatedly OOMs and misses its nightly completion window.

5 lessons · 1 production assignment
COURSE 13WEEKS 16

Distributed & fault-tolerant training

An eight-GPU job is slower than one GPU and loses progress on failure.

5 lessons · 1 production assignment
05

Transformers

3 connected courses

COURSE 14WEEKS 17–19

Build a transformer from scratch

Domain autocomplete needs a model whose every component the team can explain.

5 lessons · 1 production assignment
COURSE 15WEEKS 20

Foundation-model lifecycle

A private support assistant must answer from evidence and resist manipulation.

5 lessons · 1 production assignment
COURSE 16WEEKS 21

Frontier architectures & efficient inference

Long-context generation breaks latency and cost targets.

5 lessons · 1 production assignment
06

Production

4 connected courses

COURSE 17WEEKS 22

Production data & ML platforms

A late feature silently corrupts every downstream prediction.

5 lessons · 1 production assignment
COURSE 18WEEKS 22–23

Serving & inference systems

Launch traffic causes p99 spikes and leaves expensive GPUs idle.

5 lessons · 1 production assignment
COURSE 19WEEKS 23

Reliability, monitoring & experimentation

Model quality decays while every infrastructure dashboard stays green.

5 lessons · 1 production assignment
COURSE 20WEEKS 24

Governance, fairness, privacy & security

A high-performing system creates subgroup harm and leaks sensitive information.

5 lessons · 1 production assignment
Cumulative synthesis

Build the marketplace catalog-quality and search capstone.

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