Stanford CME 296, Condensed: How A Teddy Bear Becomes An Image

Every lecture in CME 296 generates the same picture: a teddy bear reading a book. It's a blob of noise on the title slide of lecture 1 and a finished image on the closing slide of lecture 8, and in between the course opens every box that prompt passes through: the autoencoder that compresses it, the transformer that denoises it, the guidance scale that makes the model listen, the benchmark that de