AI Learning Roadmap: Where to Start if You're a Complete Beginner
After 10+ years in the AI field, here's the roadmap I wish I had. Learn the difference between AI, machine learning, and deep learning, and exactly where to begin.
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AI feels overwhelming.
It doesn't have to.
Too many shallow tutorials. Too much hype. Not enough of the real foundations that make AI systems actually work in production. Fondra Labs is where you learn AI by building it — from real experience deploying LLMs, VLMs, and multi-GPU systems at SAIHST in Samsung Medical Center.
Javier Aguirre
The AI Foundations Checklist
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Built in Production
I've spent years building the AI systems that most courses only talk about — deploying LLMs behind hospital firewalls, optimizing multi-GPU inference for real patients, publishing research that gets peer-reviewed by people who actually read the code. I know exactly where learners get stuck because I've solved those same problems in production, under pressure, with real consequences.
AI Researcher — SAIHST / Samsung Medical Center
Building production LLM/VLM systems with vLLM, Ray, and multi-GPU deployments for real
healthcare applications.
Published at IEEE-ICHI
Peer-reviewed research on AI systems for healthcare informatics, presented at
international conferences.
Reviewer for Nature Journals
Selected to review for Nature Scientific Reports and NPJ Digital Medicine — the
standard for rigorous AI research.
Is This For You?
This is for you if:
You understand code but AI still feels like a black box
You are tired of tutorials that work in notebooks but fail in production
You want to build AI that holds up under real pressure
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javieraguirre@fondralabs.com