Yufei's Cookbooks

This website collects cookbooks that are sometimes useful, sometimes useless.

About myself. I was trained as a statistician and now work as a software engineer, with a preference for systems and implementation over heavy math. As a NASM-certified personal trainer, I also maintain a small personal practice in astrology and wellbeing.

All But Statistics

"In fact, the whole history of the discovery of the foundations of analysis reads backward - much as one peels a cabbage starting from the outermost leaves and working inward - so mathematicians started by giving precise definitions for the most advanced concepts such as derivative and integral in terms of an intuitive real number system, then worked inward to construct the real number system in terms of an intuitive set theory, and then worked to the core of axiomatic set theory." -- Robert S. Strichartz, The Way of Analysis

Deep Learning

BackpropAndMLP

Transformers

Generative Models

RNN

Bandits

Dynamic Programming

Reinforcement Learning

Foundations

Value Based Learning

Policy Based Learning

All But Coding

"The first published binary search algorithm appeared in 1946, but the first bug-free version wasn't written until 1962." -- Donald E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming