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Short, practical articles from each course: how to check AI answers, evaluate models, build tutors and agents, and keep AI features safe.

  1. Course: AI Foundations & Responsible AI

    A confident answer still needs evidence

    Learn to separate a fluent AI response from a claim supported by facts, sources, and appropriate checks.

    2 min read

  2. Course: Applied Machine Learning: Build, Evaluate, Improve

    Why a simple baseline belongs in every ML project

    Compare a learned model with a simple alternative using the same data and metric before claiming an improvement.

    2 min read

  3. Course: Reasoning Models & Test-Time Compute

    When is it worth paying a model to think longer?

    Reasoning models and sampling spend more compute per answer. Learn when that helps, when it does not, and how to measure the difference on your own task.

    2 min read

  4. Course: Post-Training: Fine-Tuning, RLHF & DPO

    Should you fine-tune? Usually not first

    Fine-tuning changes behaviour, not knowledge. Learn when prompting or retrieval is enough, and how to audit data before you train.

    2 min read

  5. Course: AI Safety & Alignment for Builders

    Your system prompt is not a security boundary

    Prompt injection cannot be filtered away. Enforce limits in code where actions happen, and test with attacks you did not write.

    2 min read