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The Industrial AI Journey

From confession to competence - A brutally honest path to mastery

Month 00: The Confession

Admitting what I don't know

1

The Transpose Button Confession: How I Faked My Way Through AI

September 10, 2025
2

Variable Amnesia: When I Couldn't Explain What x = 5 Actually Means

September 11, 2025
3

The Loop That Almost Got Me Fired

September 12, 2025
4

Functions: More Than Copy-Paste Blocks I Don't Understand

September 13, 2025
5

My Data Structure Disaster at the Steel Mill

September 14, 2025
6

The Debugging Diary: Learning to Fix What I Don't Understand

September 15, 2025

Month 0: Building Competence

Learning the fundamentals properly

7

From Excel to Python: A Metallurgist's Painful Journey

September 16, 2025
8

SQL Nightmares: When SELECT * Crashed Production

September 17, 2025
9

Object-Oriented Confusion: Classes Aren't Just Fancy Dictionaries

September 18, 2025
10

The Day I Learned What APIs Actually Are

September 19, 2025
11

Version Control Saved My Job: A Git Redemption Story

September 20, 2025
12

Testing: How I Stopped Breaking Production Every Friday

September 21, 2025

Month 1: Mathematical Foundations

The language of industrial AI

13

Matrix Multiplication: The Day It Finally Clicked

September 22, 2025
14

Eigenvalues: Finding Hidden Patterns in Vibration Data

September 23, 2025
15

PCA Decoded: Reducing 100 Sensors to 5 That Matter

September 24, 2025
16

The Magic of SVD in Missing Sensor Data

September 25, 2025
17

Probability: Why Your Mill Doesn't Follow Normal Distributions

September 26, 2025
18

Calculus for Optimization: Finding the Sweet Spot in Rolling Speed

September 27, 2025

Month 2: Python Deep Dive

From basics to industrial applications

19

NumPy Nightmares: When Vectorization Goes Wrong

September 28, 2025
20

Pandas Proficiency: From CSV Hell to Data Paradise

September 29, 2025
21

The Bootstrap Method That Saved Our Quality Predictions

September 30, 2025
22

Convex Optimization: Why Some Problems Are Actually Easy

October 1, 2025
23

Genetic Algorithms: When Brute Force Is Actually Smart

October 2, 2025
24

Regularization: How I Stopped Overfitting Everything

October 3, 2025