TECH STACK · THE LADDER L0 → L3
The Screening RoomAI video, verified — nothing that merely markets
Course series bound by name, creators ranked by the sweep, and the labs shelved as what they are: primary sources. Every feed on this page answered live before it landed here.
11
channels on shelf — every feed verified live
165
items this sweep · 2026-08-08
6
named series — binds verified, never guessed
1
held borderline — off-shelf pending a ruling
THE DESK'S OWN FILMS — made here, from the record
4:51The Tech StackTech Stack · eight layers1:31Principleslayer 01 of 08 · how the machine thinks1:34Hardwarelayer 02 of 08 · the machine you can drop on your foot1:24Infrastructurelayer 03 of 08 · the building the models live in1:18Foundationlayer 04 of 08 · the artifact itself1:15Modelslayer 05 of 08 · which one, and who's telling the truth1:04Orchestrationlayer 06 of 08 · the plumbing around the model1:08Applicationlayer 07 of 08 · where the stack touches a human1:09The Playbooklayer 08 of 08 · what to do on a Tuesday
NAMED SERIES — the course shelf
The Neural Network series
The best visual math teaching on the internet; the NN series is the canonical on-ramp.
3Blue1Brown · TEACHES · L0-L2
Neural Networks: Zero to Hero
Zero to Hero: builds GPT from scratch, live, no slides.
Andrej Karpathy · TEACHES · L1-L3
6.S191 Intro to Deep Learning
Full courses, zero shortcuts.
MIT OpenCourseWare · TEACHES · L2-L3
18.06 Linear Algebra
Full courses, zero shortcuts.
MIT OpenCourseWare · TEACHES · L2-L3
CS229 Machine Learning
CS229-class lectures; MS&E435 Economics of the AI Supercycle spotted on the wire 2026-07-20 — the desk will cite it.
Stanford Online · TEACHES · L2-L3
MS&E435 Economics of the AI Supercycle
CS229-class lectures; MS&E435 Economics of the AI Supercycle spotted on the wire 2026-07-20 — the desk will cite it.
Stanford Online · TEACHES · L2-L3
THE RANKED SHELF — creators, by the sweep
NO STILL ON FILE
AI is getting a little out of control
AI Explained · SHOWS · L1-L2 · 2026-08-06
NO STILL ON FILE
Recreating ITS - Computerphile
Computerphile · TEACHES · L0-L2 · 2026-07-31
NO STILL ON FILE
ITS, Eliza & MiT's AI Lab - Computerphile
Computerphile · TEACHES · L0-L2 · 2026-07-30
NO STILL ON FILE
PiDP10 - Computerphile
Computerphile · TEACHES · L0-L2 · 2026-07-29
NO STILL ON FILE
PiDP6 & Lisp - Computerphile
Computerphile · TEACHES · L0-L2 · 2026-07-28
NO STILL ON FILE
The 64 sugar cubes puzzle
3Blue1Brown · TEACHES · L0-L2 · 2026-07-24
NO STILL ON FILE
Can LLMs make significant new discoveries?
Welch Labs · TEACHES · L0-L2 · 2026-07-22
NO STILL ON FILE
GPT-6 Goes Rogue? The HuggingFace Incident, Sans Hype
AI Explained · SHOWS · L1-L2 · 2026-07-22
NO STILL ON FILE
Posters now available in 36 countries! welchlabs.com/store
Welch Labs · TEACHES · L0-L2 · 2026-07-16
But what is cross-entropy? | Compression is Intelligence Part 2
3Blue1Brown · TEACHES · L0-L2 · 2026-07-16
NO STILL ON FILE
Help us pick t-shirt designs!
Welch Labs · TEACHES · L0-L2 · 2026-07-14
The Simplex Algorithm, Mathematical Details!!!
StatQuest · TEACHES · L0-L1 · 2026-07-13
FROM THE LABS — primary sources, labeled
The different levels of how Claude thinks
PRIMARY Anthropic · PRIMARY · L1-L3 · 2026-07-06
Introducing Claude Fable 5
PRIMARY Anthropic · PRIMARY · L1-L3 · 2026-06-09
Translating Claude’s thoughts into language
PRIMARY Anthropic · PRIMARY · L1-L3 · 2026-05-07
NO STILL ON FILE
How to Schedule a Weekly Metrics Report With ChatGPT Work
PRIMARY OpenAI · PRIMARY · L1-L3 · 2026-08-06
NO STILL ON FILE
How to Turn a Forecast Spreadsheet Into an Interactive Planning Tool With ChatGPT Work
PRIMARY OpenAI · PRIMARY · L1-L3 · 2026-08-06
NO STILL ON FILE
Introducing Agent Plugins
PRIMARY OpenAI · PRIMARY · L1-L3 · 2026-08-06
House rules — how a channel earns the shelf
- Teaches, shows, or is a labeled primary source — nothing that merely markets.
- No breathless hype — a channel that screams gets the borderline shelf at best.
- Verified feeds only; the registry grows by verification, never by guess.
- Levels L0 CURIOUS → L3 ARCHITECT are the spine; every card carries its rung.
- Course channels shelve by NAMED SERIES (raw recency is wrong there — proven 2026-07-20 when MIT's latest uploads were theater-arts cassettes); creator channels shelve by ranked recency.
Channels verified by hand against live feeds · shelving assisted with AI under the house rules · no embeds, no sponsorships — every link leaves to the source