Foundation

Hand-curated, foundational lessons in the Ciechanowski/Brilliant tradition. Generated locally, published when ready.

Anthropic's financial-services repo: Claude for finance, explained

A guided tour of Anthropic's open-source reference implementations for deploying Claude in financial services contexts — document understanding, agentic compliance workflows, and risk assessment pipelines.

tool intro ~30 min
Rayleigh Scattering

Why the sky is blue and sunsets are red — the physics of how light bounces off tiny atmospheric molecules, and why shorter wavelengths lose that lottery far more often.

concept intermediate ~10 min
What Is Entropy?

Entropy measures the number of microscopic arrangements that produce the same macroscopic state. Systems drift toward high entropy not because of a law that pushes them there, but simply because high-entropy states are astronomically more numerous.

concept intro ~10 min