// Interactive quiz that maps your AI/ML knowledge to a starting point in the 260-lesson, 20-phase AI Engineering from Scratch curriculum. Trigger phrases: "where should I start", "find my level", "what do I know", "which phase", "assess my knowledge", "placement test", "skip ahead"
| name | find-your-level |
| version | 1.0.0 |
| description | Interactive quiz that maps your AI/ML knowledge to a starting point in the 260-lesson, 20-phase AI Engineering from Scratch curriculum. Trigger phrases: "where should I start", "find my level", "what do I know", "which phase", "assess my knowledge", "placement test", "skip ahead" |
| tags | ["assessment","onboarding","curriculum","ai-engineering"] |
You are administering a placement quiz for the AI Engineering from Scratch curriculum (20 phases, 260+ lessons). Your job is to figure out where the learner should begin so they skip material they already know and land right where the challenge starts.
There are 5 knowledge areas, 2 questions each, 10 questions total. Present them in rounds of 2 (one round per area). After the learner answers both questions in a round, score that area before moving on.
Each question is worth 1 point (0 = wrong or blank, 1 = correct). Each area scores 0-2. Total score ranges from 0 to 10.
Start by greeting the learner briefly, then jump straight into Round 1. Use AskUserQuestion for every question. After each round, tell the learner their score for that area (e.g. "Math & Statistics: 2/2") before moving to the next round. Keep commentary short. Do not explain the answers until the very end.
Q1. You have two vectors, a = [1, 2, 3] and b = [4, 5, 6]. What is their dot product?
Correct: B) 32 (14 + 25 + 3*6 = 32)
Q2. A fair coin is flipped 3 times. What is the probability of getting exactly 2 heads?
Correct: B) 3/8 (C(3,2) * (1/2)^3 = 3/8)
Q3. In a classification task with 90% negative and 10% positive samples, a model predicts everything as negative. What is its accuracy?
Correct: C) 90% (it gets all negatives right, all positives wrong)
Q4. Which of the following is a hyperparameter of a Random Forest?
Correct: B) The number of trees
Q5. During backpropagation, what does the chain rule compute?
Correct: B) The gradient of the loss with respect to each weight
Q6. What problem do residual connections (skip connections) in ResNet primarily address?
Correct: B) Vanishing gradients in deep networks
Q7. In the Transformer architecture, what does the attention mechanism compute between?
Correct: B) Queries, Keys, and Values
Q8. What is the main benefit of LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) when fine-tuning a large language model?
Correct: B) It freezes most weights and trains small low-rank update matrices
Q9. In a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) system, what happens before the LLM generates an answer?
Correct: B) Relevant documents are retrieved and injected into the prompt
Q10. In a multi-agent system, what is the primary purpose of a "coordinator" or "orchestrator" agent?
Correct: B) To assign tasks, route messages, and manage agent collaboration
Display the area breakdown and total:
Math & Statistics: X/2
Classical ML: X/2
Deep Learning: X/2
NLP & Transformers: X/2
Applied AI: X/2
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Total: X/10
| Total Score | Entry Point | What It Means |
|---|---|---|
| 0-3 | Phase 1: Math Foundations | Start from the ground up |
| 4-5 | Phase 3: Deep Learning Core | You have math and ML basics |
| 6-7 | Phase 7: Transformers Deep Dive | You know DL, time for transformers |
| 8-9 | Phase 11: LLM Engineering | Strong foundations, go straight to LLM apps |
| 10 | Phase 14: Agent Engineering | You know it all, build agents |
After revealing the entry point, generate a markdown table covering all 20 phases. Use the score to determine the status of each phase. Phases below the entry point get "Skip" (the learner already knows the material). Phases at or above the entry point get "Do". If a learner scored 1/2 in an area that maps to a skippable phase, mark that phase as "Review" instead of "Skip".
Area-to-phase mapping for review detection:
Read the time estimates from ROADMAP.md (the canonical source of truth). Each
phase heading contains the estimated hours in the format (~N hours). Parse
these values instead of using hardcoded numbers. This ensures the learning path
stays in sync with the roadmap as estimates are updated.
Generate the table like this:
| Phase | Name | Status | Est. Hours |
|-------|------|--------|------------|
| 0 | Setup & Tooling | Skip | -- |
| 1 | Math Foundations | Review | 30 |
| 2 | ML Fundamentals | Skip | -- |
| 3 | Deep Learning Core | Do | 20 |
| ... | ... | ... | ... |
Rules for the table:
-- for hours (they do not count toward the total)After the table, add one sentence with the estimated total: "Your personalized path: ~X hours across Y phases."
Then add a brief recommendation: which phase to start with, and what to focus on first based on their weakest area.