18-Day Foundation Models + Post-Training Roadmap
Three weeks, six days per week, five hours per day.
The complete plan is maintained in 18-day-foundation-model-plan.md. It starts with Transformer fundamentals, builds a full foundation-model systems map, and then specializes in post-training and reinforcement learning.
Daily cadence
| Block | Time |
|---|---|
| History and theory | 60 min |
| Mathematics | 45 min |
| Colab implementation | 120 min |
| Ablation and visualization | 45 min |
| Flagship essay chapter | 30 min |
Weekly outputs
- Inside a Modern LLM: From Tokens to KV Cache
- How Foundation Models Are Built and Extended Beyond Text
- Post-Training from First Principles: SFT, RLHF, DPO and GRPO