There is No Spoon. A software engineers primer for demystified ML
A machine learning primer built from first principles. Written for engineers who want to reason about ML systems the way they reason about software systems.
You're a strong engineer. You can draw a software system on a whiteboard from your own hard-earned mental model. You understand tradeoffs — maintenance vs elegance, performance vs complexity.
You have a gut for software design. You don't have that gut for machine learning yet.
You know the tools exist but you can't feel when to reach for which. This primer builds that intuition.
This isn't a textbook or a tutorial. It's a mental model — the abstractions you need to reason about ML systems the way you already reason about software systems.
Every concept is anchored in physical and engineering analogies :