Welcome to a strange differentiable wonderland where you, like Alice, must navigate through the intricacies of neural networks. Immerse yourself in the basics of optimizing functions through automatic differentiation and learn to interact with differentiable primitives. Discover the most common designs for handling sequences, graphs, texts, audios, and more. Can you bridge the gap between theory and code to unravel the mysteries of large language models and multimodal architectures?