Appendix C — Lab Index
One page per lab: the notebook, the chapters it pairs with, and its skills-ladder rung.
To start a lab: click its Open in Colab badge (or download the notebook and File ▸ Upload notebook yourself), then save a copy in your Drive.
| Lab | Chapter(s) | Notebook | Skills ladder |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chapter 1 |  · download |
Colab fluency |
| 2 | Chapter 2 | · download |
W&B; seeding; overfit-one-batch |
| 3 | Chapter 3 | · download |
Dataset/DataLoader; augmentation |
| 4 | Chapter 4 | · download |
IoU/mAP by hand |
| 5 | Chapter 5 | · download |
Annotation |
| 6 | Chapter 6 | · download |
Checkpoints; W&B artifacts |
| 7 | Chapter 7 | · download |
Variable-length batches: padding and masked loss |
| 8 | Chapter 8 | · download |
Controlled comparisons: change one thing, hold the rest fixed |
| 9 | Chapter 10 | TODO | HF fluency I |
| 10 | Chapter 11 | TODO | Bayesian sweeps; UMAP |
| 11 | Chapter 12 | TODO | Error analysis |
| 12 | Chapter 13 | TODO | HF fluency II; Trainer; LoRA |
| 13 | Chapter 14 | TODO | Schedulers + warmup; resume-from-artifact |
| 14 | Chapter 15 | TODO | Inference-time engineering |
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