Order matters a little.
A and B first. They install almost nothing. C and D share a setup. E and F are independent. All six, if you use free Colab where it is offered, is under five dollars.
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Lab A
Embeddings
Structure exists in the space without anyone labeling it.
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Lab B
Sampling
There is no decision. There is a distribution, and you can watch it choose.
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Lab C
Denoising
Generation is a walk from noise, not a lookup. You get an image at every step.
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Lab D
Interpolation
The space is continuous. You walk the line between two prompts.
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Lab E
Quantization
Quality is a purchasable dial. A degraded model sounds exactly as confident as a good one.
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Lab F
Fine-tune
Capability has a price measured in examples. You plot the curve.
You do not need a terminal.
Model names and prices live in CURRENT.md, which is the only file allowed to go stale. If a command fails, check that, then TROUBLESHOOTING.md.
On your machine
Download the zip, unzip it, open the lab folder, double-click one file:
RUN-THIS-Windows.bat RUN-THIS-Mac-Linux.command
It finds Python, builds a private environment for that lab, and runs it. If Python is missing it tells you what to download and which box to tick (Add Python to PATH, first screen, easy to miss).
Mac: first time, right-click the file and choose Open. Once. Typed commands are in SETUP.md.
Locked-down laptop
Labs A, B, and C ship a Colab notebook with the code inside it. Nothing to clone. Open it, run every cell. Nothing installs on your machine, which is usually the only route that works behind a corporate proxy.