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I can't believe I'm saying this - I'm officially a published author :D
After three years, my first book is out.
"AI for the Rest of Us" with @BloomsburyAcad is finally in the world.
I wrote it because I watched too many people get left behind in AI conversations.
The gap between executives and engineers kept growing.
Everyone else just nodded along, trying to translate both languages at once.
So I built a bridge.
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Make every purchase meaningful and every new technology approachable.
Big Feelings, Bad Purchases by Daniel Mercer
Explore the psychology behind emotional spending and how feelings influence our choices in the digital age.
AI for the Rest of Us by Sairam Sundaresan
A simple, illustrated introduction to understanding Artificial Intelligence and its growing role in our everyday lives.
Discover the latest collection at the AMA Library and turn curiosity into knowledge!
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Writing books brings unanticipated rewards. Writing WHY MACHINES LEARN made possible the most joyful outcome--going back to my alma mater @iitmadras, decades after graduating to teach an Intro to ML/AI course to PhD and Master's students at the @WSAI_IITM (Wadhwani School of Data Science and AI).
It was an intense 10 days, where the students and I were together from 10AM to 5PM, everyday except Sun. Besides the history and narratives of machine learning, we got into the basic math of ML algorithms (perceptron convergence proof, LMS, MLE/MAP, SVMs, Kernel Methods, Back-propagation, GANs, VAEs, Diffusion Models, CNNs, Transformers, and, of course, LLMs), and ending with a look ahead at how deep learning has thrown a bit of monkey wrench into the statistical learning theory, double descent, grokking, etc.).
Thanks to @DSaience (Sairam Sundaresan), our amazing guest speaker, for giving us invaluable insights into CNNs and Vision Transformers, an outcome of his 2 decades of industry experience building such models.
A huge thanks to Prof. Karthik Raman (@karthikraman), Prof. Balaraman Ravindran (@ravi_iitm) and the admin and support staff at WSAI, IIT Madras for helping make this a seamless effort.
At some point, your AI team stops asking "Is the model good?" and starts asking "What moves do we still have?"
That's AI debt. More precisely, it's options debt: the slow loss of your ability to respond when something breaks in production.
Your evals still pass. Customers still ask for a human. Your team tweaks the prompt and ships another fix. No one knows if it helped.
The ability to trace failures, roll back, and test safely. You lose those quietly, until you can't afford to.
If you're a PM or a product leader building with AI and you don't have a way to answer those questions yet, this series is for you.
Part 1 goes live on @gradi3nt_ascent today. Linked below 👇
P.S: The illustrations aren't AI generated. @Procreate is awesome for this :)
ALT A product manager staring at her monitor with error signals reflecting off her glasses. She holds a cup of coffee that's growing cold.
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AI can feel overwhelming & sometimes impossible to keep up with. AI for the Rest of Us changes that conversation. @DSaience breaks down how AI is already shaping the way we work and live, and why understanding it doesn’t need a technical background.
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AI isn’t just for engineers and mathematicians. Sairam Sundaresan explains why he wrote his book as a "translation layer" between the technical side of AI and the business world.
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Pawan Goyal, Professor, @IITKgp, in a conversation with Author Sairam Surenderasan at #ThinkEdu2026.
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“How Is AI Changing Education: What We Need to Know”
An engaging conversation with Dr. V Kamakoti – Director, IIT Madras; and Sairam Sundaresan – Author
Hear an examination of how artificial intelligence is influencing teaching, learning processes, and institutional practices, and what educators and students need to understand about this transition.
🗓 March 3, 2026
📍 ITC Grand Chola
Be in the room where ideas shape tomorrow.
Register now: eventxpress.com/thinkedu2026…
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#ThinkEdu2026 #EducationSummit #ChennaiEvents #EdexLive #AIinEducation #ArtificialIntelligence
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“North South: One India, Many Songs”
A cultural conversation with Maithili Thakur – Member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly.
Listen to a reflection on cultural harmony, linguistic diversity, and the role of music in connecting regions across India while sustaining distinct traditions and identities.
“Dreamers and Doers: The New Gen Student”
A panel discussion with Dr. M Jagadesh Kumar – Former Chairman, UGC; and Dr. Girija Vaidyanathan – Former Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu.
Listen to a discussion on the aspirations, capabilities, and responsibilities of today’s students, and how institutions engage with ambition, initiative, and emerging forms of leadership.
“How Is AI Changing Education: What We Need to Know”
An engaging conversation with Dr. V Kamakoti – Director, IIT Madras; and Sairam Sundaresan – Author
Hear an examination of how artificial intelligence is influencing teaching, learning processes, and institutional practices, and what educators and students need to understand about this transition.
🗓 March 3, 2026
📍 ITC Grand Chola
Be in the room where ideas shape tomorrow.
Register now: eventxpress.com/thinkedu2026…
@maithilithakur @nidmmhaindia @mamidala90 @DSaience @iitmadras @NCPCR_ @IndianOilcl @SastraUniv @SSVM_Schools @TCS @TataCompanies @myrecchennai
@PrabhuChawla @NewIndianXpress @Eventxpress @NehaSonthaliaP1 @doctorlalitha @xpressandhra @xpresskerala @xpresstn @XpressOdisha @XpressBengaluru @XpressHyderabad @samakalikam @TheMornStandard @xpressandhra
#ThinkEdu2026 #EducationSummit #ChennaiEvents #EdexLive #CulturalUnity #OneIndia #NewGenStudents #UGC #AIinEducation #ArtificialIntelligence
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Learn ML+GenAI at @DSaience's "Machine Learning and Generative AI System Design Workshop" = 4.5 hours, Feb.28
Get 40% OFF registration fee with my discount code 'KIRK40'
See many more details & register here: eventbrite.com/e/machine-lea…
Hosted by @PacktPublishing @PacktDataML
Sairam Sundaresan retweeted
Learn ML+GenAI at the @DSaience "Machine Learning and Generative AI System Design Workshop" = 4.5 hours, Feb.28
Get 40% OFF registration fee with my discount code 'KIRK40'
See many more details & register here: eventbrite.com/e/machine-lea…
Hosted by @PacktPublishing @PacktDataML
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I’m Ken Ono. After a long stretch in university administration, I made a personal pivot: back to math, back to education, and into the AI moment with a lot of hope (and a lot of care).
If AI is going to matter, it should give humans time back for the parts of learning that are deeply human.
More in thread 👇
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It genuinely feels to me like GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.5 in November represent an inflection point - one of those moments where the models get incrementally better in a way that tips across an invisible capability line where suddenly a whole bunch of much harder coding problems open up
So grateful for this past year.
1. @gradi3nt_ascent tripled in size from 8k to 25k subscribers.
2. I published my first book with @BloomsburyAcad
3. Grew from 2k to a community of 100k followers on LinkedIn.
I wrote about the newsletter journey and what's next for Gradient Ascent, writing and education, especially given how AI has commoditized learning. Or has it?
Post linked below. Happy New Year!
