What I did at Recurse Center
A participant at the Recurse Center programming retreat shares their experience engaging in study groups focused on deep learning, LLMs, and mathematical AI applications. The author highlights the collaborative nature of the retreat and the practical skills gained through peer-led learning.
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It provides insight into modern developer education trends and the growing interest in practical, community-driven AI skill acquisition.
I spent the summer at Recurse Center , a programming retreat in Brooklyn, at the recommendation of my friend Cory. These are some things I did there.
RC has regular study groups that anyone can organize and schedule. For example, people would get together every Friday to work through old Advent of Code challenges together. I did Agentic Adventures, Practical Deep Learning, Math Monday, and a short series investigating an open source board game AI.
Agentic Adventures is a discussion group for people interested in modern LLMs and agents; we did different things every week. Some highlights:
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