Learn & Certify
Learn in the open. Certify by proof.
The lecture notes are free for everyone, with no account and no paywall. The premium courses add a project brief, mentor feedback and the three-stage review your certificate depends on.
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FreeEvery module as written notes, with worked examples, notebooks and datasets. Read online or download.
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Premium Courses
from $216A guided course, a project brief and mentor feedback. Your certificate is issued only when your working project passes review.
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The open library
Versioned like our papers, so you can see what changed. Each set comes with the notebooks and data it uses.
- LN-FND-01Foundations
Evidence before claims
How to state what a system does, what it was tested on, and what would prove it wrong. The habit every course builds on.
Worked examples - LN-SEC-01Cybersecurity
Network flows and what they reveal
Reading NetFlow records, building a baseline, and spotting scans and beacons by hand before automating anything.
NotebookDataset - LN-SEC-02Cybersecurity
Detection rules you can test
Writing rules with explicit thresholds, replaying labelled traffic against them, and reporting misses as well as hits.
NotebookTest traffic - LN-AI-01AI systems
Evaluating a model honestly
Held-out sets, leakage, baselines and error analysis. How to write an evaluation section a reviewer can rerun.
NotebookDataset - LN-AI-02AI systems
Model cards and oversight
Documenting scope, data, limits and the human decision points, using the dispatch triage assistant as the worked case.
Templates - LN-EO-01Earth observation
Public satellite data, end to end
Finding, downloading and regridding Level 2 products, with cloud masks and quality flags handled explicitly.
NotebookDataset - LN-AG-01Agents
Agents that leave a log
Designing an agent loop whose every action and observation is recorded, so any run can be replayed and checked.
NotebookLog format - LN-FND-02Foundations
Reproducible by default
Pinned environments, one-command reruns and versioned data. What a reviewer needs to reproduce your work on a clean machine.
Templates
Premium Courses + Certification
Each course ends in a proof
Every course names the working project you will build and how it will be tested. That project is what gets reviewed, and what your certificate points to.
Cybersecurity
Applied Cybersecurity Engineering
- Guided course, 8 modules
- Project brief and public rubric
- Mentor feedback on your build
- Three-stage proof review
- One resubmission if review asks for changes
- Certificate with a public record
Your proof
A working intrusion-detection pipeline that ingests flow logs, flags the attack patterns in the replayable test set, and queues each alert with its context.
Builds on the free notes LN-SEC-01 · LN-SEC-02. Not certified if your proof does not pass review; you keep the course.
AI systems
Applied AI Systems
- Guided course, 10 modules
- Project brief and public rubric
- Mentor feedback on your build
- Three-stage proof review
- One resubmission if review asks for changes
- Certificate with a public record
Your proof
A model-backed service with a held-out evaluation anyone can rerun, a model card that states its limits, and a demo a reviewer can use.
Builds on the free notes LN-AI-01 · LN-AI-02. Not certified if your proof does not pass review; you keep the course.
Earth observation
Earth Observation with Public Data
- Guided course, 6 modules
- Project brief and public rubric
- Mentor feedback on your build
- Three-stage proof review
- One resubmission if review asks for changes
- Certificate with a public record
Your proof
A reproducible notebook that detects and maps one signal from public satellite data, with every source listed and its failure cases stated.
Builds on the free notes LN-EO-01 · LN-FND-02. Not certified if your proof does not pass review; you keep the course.
The certificate
Earned by a working proof, not by finishing videos
Completing a course proves you were there. Our certificate says you built something that works, and that other people checked it.
What does not earn it
- Watching every video
- Attending every session
- Passing quizzes
- Time spent on the course
What does
- A working project that meets its brief
- Code, a demo and a short write-up, published with a proof ID
- Passing Institute, Community and Public review
- A public record anyone can check by certificate ID
Questions
Before you enroll
Do I need a course to get certified?
The course gives you the brief, the rubric, mentor feedback and the review. The free notes cover the same material, but certification needs a reviewed proof, and review comes with the course.
What happens if my proof does not pass review?
Reviewers say what to change. Each course includes one resubmission. If the proof still does not pass, you are not certified, and you keep the course and everything you built.
How long does review take?
Institute review takes about a week. Community review takes two to three weeks. Public review stays open for at least two weeks so anyone can comment.
Can a certificate be taken away?
Yes. If a reviewer later shows the proof does not hold, the review is reopened. A certificate that no longer stands is marked Revoked, publicly, with the reason.