Accountant / Finance Professional

3 courses · ~8 hours

phase 1 — Build your own financial tools

Build a browser extension for financial research.

[ ] Build Your First Chrome Extension

Build a browser extension that extracts data from web pages and sends it to an AI for analysis. You'll create a tool you can actually use for financial research.

5 sections · 17 lessons

[ ] Understanding Chrome Extensions (3 lessons)
[ ] Your First Extension — Hello World Popup (3 lessons)
[ ] Upgrading Your Extension — Comic Sans Mode (3 lessons)
[ ] Real-World Application — AI-Powered Page Transformer (6 lessons)
[ ] Security and Distribution (2 lessons)

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phase 2 — How AI generates and hallucinates numbers

Understand when to trust AI output and when to verify.

[ ] Understanding Transformers [preview]

Models generate text probabilistically — including numbers. Understanding this mechanism helps you know when to trust AI output and when to verify it manually.

2 sections · 4 lessons

[ ] Attention Mechanisms (3 lessons)
[ ] Embeddings (1 lesson)

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phase 3 — How AI tools connect to data sources

Evaluate AI tools that pull from accounting systems.

[ ] Understanding Tool Calling

When AI tools pull from accounting systems, generate reports, or flag anomalies, tool calling is the mechanism. Understanding it helps you evaluate these tools critically.

4 sections · 10 lessons

[ ] Foundations (2 lessons)
[ ] How Models Decide (2 lessons)
[ ] Advanced Patterns (3 lessons)
[ ] Security and Production (3 lessons)

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key terms

Transformer·Tool Calling·Context Window·Attention·Chrome Extension