I — Foundations Refreshed → Chapter 1
FROM SYSTEMS TO FRONTIER ML

Vectors, Dot Products & Norms

Everything downstream — attention, embeddings, quantization, similarity search — is built from one operation you already know. Let's re-own it, precisely, and end with it running in hardware.

§1 What a vector really is §2 The dot product §3 Norms & distance §4 The SIMD width ladder — SSE → AVX-512 → NEON

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