By dawn she had built three mini-models from the notebooks: a character-level text generator that composed awkward but charming haikus, a tiny CNN that learned to find cats in grainy photos, and a reinforcement learner that, given a simulated gridworld, stumbled at first and then began to plan as if it had remembered the rules all along. The exercises were mercilessly kind—challenging enough to require thought, forgiving enough to give small, consistent wins. Each failure came with a pointer, a test, a commented hint in the code that felt like someone leaning over her shoulder and saying, "Try changing the learning rate; what happens?"

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