Learning System

The 8-section chapter template

Same structure as the sister project AI Assistant Engineering.

1. Concept — one paragraph, one definition
2. Why it matters — what breaks without this tool or idea
3. Where it's used — real models and papers
4. Minimal example — under 30 lines
5. Hands-on tutorial — run it end-to-end in Colab
6. Common pitfalls — things you'll actually hit while debugging
7. Production checklist — reproducibility, checkpoints, resource math
8. Exercises — three to five

Visuals

Tool	When
Tables	sequences, steps, comparisons
.infocards	card-style summaries
SVG pairs (light/dark)	flows, architectures, hierarchies

No ASCII art, no Mermaid, no emoji-as-diagram. Full rules are in .claude/skills/diagram-svg/SKILL.md.

Colab integration

Each chapter's Open in Colab badge links directly to notebooks/partN/chNN_*.ipynb. Notebooks stay 1:1 with the chapter's code blocks via _tools/md_to_notebook.py.

Progress tracking

• _plans/README.md — overall progress dashboard
• _plans/writing-log.md — per-session log
• _plans/partN-plan.md — per-chapter plans