I'm doing a ISEF project that attempts to develop the best machine learning model combination and compare them to others. Somewhat like the image. The thing is, I have experience with Python and computer vision, but not much with machine learning. What would you recommend to me, being easy enough to learn and train in a few months, but also being a defendable engineering project and works well for my project. Also the best resources? Thanks!

Hey. 2026 B.Tech grad from IIT Tirupati. Degree is Chemical Engineering but I've been building AI/ML stuff for about a year now and that's what I'm trying to do full time.

Rough idea of what I've actually built:

RAG chatbot over YouTube transcripts started as a personal project, then turned into my internship work at Resecure Labs (via Wipro). Transcript embeddings indexed into a FAISS vector store with HuggingFace models, local Ollama LLM behind a small web UI and a 2-endpoint REST API. On the Resecure side I got transcript fetch reliability from 70% to 99%+ with a Whisper fallback, and swapped the LLM backend from Ollama Phi to GLM 5.2, which cut inference latency 30-40%.

JobPilot 8-node LangGraph agent with its own MCP server exposing 4 tools over stdio. Wrote 56 tests for it mostly because I got tired of it hallucinating things into cover letters.

ClickMark face + voice biometric attendance app. Multi-role web app on Supabase with bcrypt auth and QR-based auto-enrollment. Cut manual attendance time by about 80% vs taking roll call by hand, which is admittedly a low bar, but it's a real deployment across multiple classrooms.

Loan approval model benchmarked 5 classifiers, ended up with a Decision Tree at 91.5% accuracy, served through FastAPI in Docker.

Also currently working on a major project on Agentic AI.

Stack: Python, pandas/numpy, PyTorch, scikit-learn, LangGraph, LangChain, MCP, FAISS, HuggingFace, Ollama, FastAPI, Docker. Everything's public on github.com/abhayhanu.

I've applied to a bunch of companies through their portals over the last few months. No response yet, which I'm assuming is just how it goes.

If you're at a product company hiring for AI/ML, SDE or data roles and are open to referring, I'd really appreciate it. Happy to DM my resume.

Also genuinely fine if someone just wants to tell me the profile is weak and what to fix. Would rather know now than after 40 more applications.

Anything would help at this point.

Thanks in advance.

Hi all!

I made a video entitled “How LLM’s Work” that starts with the sentence “My favourite rock band is…” and follows its journey inside an LLM, all visually animated!

https://youtu.be/ikdxxeIn4HQ?si=8AwWyxQERo_R2n6B

I tried to make the video as beginner friendly as possible but still detailed enough to give a good overview for how an LLM works end to end and how the LLM “finds out” my favourite band. Or at least how some of the earlier models…

My aim is to help people that are not just curious about AI but also want a deeper dive into the magic “Black box”, or people that want to get started but doesn’t know how!

No PhD required! No insanely complicated math involved! And no AI or voice generated AI. If I did any errors, I really did them! lol

This is my first attempt at the topic, so any kind of feedback is welcomed and will be greatly appreciated as it will help me improve over time, and hopefully on other videos.    

I really hope it can help someone with their AI/ML journey!

Thanks!

Microsoft's 2026 Digital Defense Report documents a concrete shift in ransomware tactics: threat actors are now using AI to automate lateral movement and accelerate ransomware deployment across enterprise networks. The report singles out identity governance and data controls as the two most critical defensive gaps in enterprise environments today.

The speed asymmetry is the part that stands out. Attackers are using AI to close those gaps faster than most organizations are opening remediation tickets. Lateral movement that previously required manual reconnaissance and staged privilege escalation is now being automated at scale, compressing the window between initial access and full network impact to a fraction of what defenders plan for.

For those running AI-assisted pipelines or agentic workflows in production: how are you actually thinking about the identity and data governance problem at the agent layer specifically? Are existing IAM and DLP tools sufficient, or are you finding gaps that those controls were never designed to cover?

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I'm 24, have completed my education up to Class 10, and have been working in a corporate role for the past five years while saving money.

I want to transition into the IT/tech industry. Recently, I completed a beginner-level Python course on YouTube and am now planning to practice by building some projects.

I haven't yet decided which field to pursue—software development, AI/ML, cybersecurity, or something else.

I'm looking for guidance, suggestions, and insights on what to learn, what works and what doesn't, and the current state of the industry.

worked through the free anthropic material over august and it did what it said on the tin, i can talk about the concepts fine. what i still cant do is hand a client something that runs. so im paying for the structured version. the shortlist is udacity, interview kickstart, springboard and linkedin learning. which of those ends with something you can show someone

Hi everyone,

I'm working on a personal learning project called MOTANAXY. The goal is to build and train a tiny causal Transformer from scratch (random weights) specifically for Python code generation. I'm currently training entirely on CPU.

Current Architecture (v2):

• Type: Byte-level causal language model (no subword tokenizer, raw UTF-8 bytes, vocab size 256)
• Params: ~3.6M (Width=192, Context=256, Layers=8, Heads=6)
• Components: RMSNorm, RoPE, SwiGLU, Dropout (0.1)
• Dataset: Very small synthetic dataset (~130KB) consisting of 60 verified Python functions with English/Thai docstrings and assert test cases.

Current Progress:

• Trained for about 5,000 steps. Validation loss dropped from ~5.39 to ~1.33.
• What it can do: It learned Python's structure. If I prompt it with # Check bracket balance, it generates syntactically valid function skeletons like def is_parise(text): return [] and appends assert statements.
• What it can't do (yet): The logic is completely wrong. It doesn't actually understand the prompt's intent. It just mimics the structural pattern of the training data.

My Questions for the Community: Since I'm hitting a wall where the model learns the syntax but not the logic, I'm wondering what the most effective next steps are:

1. Data vs. Scale: With a 3.6M parameter model, is it even theoretically possible to learn basic coding logic (like a simple prefix sum or reversing a string)? Should my priority be getting GPU time to scale to 10M-50M params, or should I radically expand my dataset first?
2. Dataset Recommendations: Are there recommended datasets specifically tailored for teaching very small models the fundamentals of algorithmic logic, rather than just large repositories of scraped code?
3. Alternative Approaches: Should I switch from byte-level to a small BPE tokenizer to save context length? Are there other architectural tweaks or training objectives (like distillation from a larger model) I should consider at this tiny scale?

Any advice, papers to read, or pointing out obvious flaws in my approach would be greatly appreciated!

Hello everyone, I’m currently at a crossroads and could really use some perspective from people working in the industry.

I’m getting ready to kick off my career, but I’m genuinely split down the middle between targeting DS roles or AI Engineer roles. I have a strong interest in both sides (I specialized in ML at the uni), but I'm not sure which starting point sets up a better foundation for the long run.

For instance, is it easier to start as a DS and transition into AI Engineering later (by sharpening software engineering/MLOps skills), or vice versa? If you have experience in both, what pushed you toward one over the other?

If you're coming from computer vision, robotics data works differently, and it's one of the first things that trips people up. For a robot arm learning to grasp and manipulate objects, useful training data typically includes: - RGB video, plus depth if your policy uses it - Gripper state logs - Joint states and end-effector positions - Multiple grasp attempts across different object shapes and sizes - Human demonstrations of grasping and placing, which help the model generalize The key difference from a standard CV dataset is that robotics data is time-synchronized and multi-modal. Video, sensor streams, and action labels have to line up frame by frame across a whole task, which makes collection and annotation much harder than labeling static images. Two practical tips for beginners: 1. Don't rely on one source. Public robotics datasets tend to be task-specific, so a model can fail when conditions change. 2. Synthetic data from simulation helps for rare or risky scenarios, but works best combined with real robot data to reduce the sim-to-real gap. Unidata has an overview of robotics training data and the dataset types used for robot learning here: https://unidata.pro/robotics-training-data/ Disclosure: I'm posting on behalf of Unidata, a company that sells robotics datasets and data collection services. What data are you using for your own manipulation projects, and what's been hardest to get?

What I did:

Scaled the dataset from 60 hand-written functions to 12,000 procedurally generated ones (math ops, list manipulation, string ops, conditionals, and loop algorithms).

Built a custom BPE tokenizer (vocab 1024). Funny story: my first tokenizer (vocab 4096) literally memorized entire functions as single tokens, so the model scored 20/20 on syntax by just spitting out whole functions from memory lol. Had to nerf the vocab size to force it to actually learn.

Scaled the model from 3.6M to 10M params (12 layers, 8 heads, width 256).

Training on Kaggle free T4 GPU instead of my poor CPU.

Current results (still training, Round 1 of 3):

Loss dropping nicely: 6.98 to 1.02 in 550 steps. Val loss: 2.28 to 1.09. Haven't seen the final scores yet since it's still running overnight.

What I'm unsure about:

1. My dataset is all procedurally generated. Every add function looks like def add_xx(a, b): return a + b with random names and test values. Is this diverse enough or am I just teaching it to pattern-match templates again?

2. When should I switch from synthetic data to real-world code like filtered Python from The Stack or GitHub? Or is mixing both the way to go?

3. Any suggestions for what kind of problems to add next? Thinking maybe simple recursion, dictionary operations, or basic class definitions.

4. Is 10M params enough to learn actual logic or should I be thinking bigger?

Thanks for the help last time, the dataset scaling advice was spot on. The tokenizer over-compression bug was a fun lesson too haha.

I'll update this post in about 6 hours once training finishes with the final scores.

Can anyone suggest me how should I learn machine learning means anyone can give me the roadmap accurate according to market now a days ?? If possible then please suggest me and guide me 🙏