2026 DL Curriculum Updates


  • We can't get get the primarily DL students
  • DL for neuroscientists
  • A little more neuro
  • Get rid of transformers >> we are all using transformers
  • What do you do with modern text based NLP
  • RL has changed >> need a more advanced
  • Modern covnets >> likely remove
  • The people who built the original version
  • A lot of people have been taken by industry >> wouldn't be able to help
  • Has a lot of coherence, but less heavy hitters
  • Just needs a modernization but good foundation >> using pyTorch
  • People need to see that teaching 1000 is more impactful than 20
  • Blake Richards?
  • Figurehead (can see the connection across days) + a young person who can benefit from the connections
  • "revamp visionary" — logic and coherence about the course
  • Curriculum visionary
  • Ask for 10-20 hours to do a big review of content and write up a curriculum report that day by day with some people suggestions
  • Tim LilyCrap // Blase (VP of google)



  • NeuroAI content — not as good. Misses overarching vision
  • There wasn't the back and forth with profs to provide a coherent vision
  • Didactic and coherent
  • Andres Krigaucorter