Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models

(magazine.sebastianraschka.com)

186 points | by sgiannopoulos 1 hour ago

5 comments

  • darrelld 1 hour ago
    I got his book Build Your Own LLM From Scratch and it's super readable and does a great job at holding your hand through the entire process...need to finish reading it though!
  • kavalg 1 hour ago
    Highly recommended! Sebastian does a great job explaining complex AI topics in a very intuitive way.
    • artninja1988 1 hour ago
      Karpathy 2.0!
      • recroad 2 minutes ago
        Karpathy might be Raschka 2.0
      • tomrod 53 minutes ago
        Other way around. Raschka's been doing this over a decade.
  • hypfer 8 minutes ago
    I'm a bit confused as to who this is for - apart from learning how the tech works that is.

    If you're truly going to build your own model (and commit to the cost of that), then video tutorials will not cut it.

    And if you don't really, then I wonder if this is really the best style of conveying the information you'd be interested in?

    I mean I might be wrong and maybe this helps emerging players or something like that, but to me it is more likely that this is more of a monetisation strategy of a personal brand. Living off selling to people that think they _should_ but then in the end don't.

    • Lucasoato 2 minutes ago
      Let’s not be this negative, we might be going towards a new direction with technology that could allow small teams to build their own models. Maybe not frontier models. Maybe not close to the others in generalized benchmarks. But perhaps they could be really specialized into solving one particular problem better than the others.
    • CamperBob2 4 minutes ago
      If you're truly going to build your own model (and commit to the cost of that), then video tutorials will not cut it.

      That makes no sense. It's like saying if you want an engineering degree, going to lectures will not cut it. Of course not, you have to do the homework too.

      • hypfer 1 minute ago
        Yeah but if it is not all that useful, why is it saying that it is "from scratch" and what is it doing on #1 of the front page?

        Something is off here. It indeed makes no sense

  • GL26 49 minutes ago
    someone's getting auction-poached at openai and anthropic
    • _1 49 minutes ago
      he's a well known author on LLMs already.
  • kettlecrisp99 11 minutes ago
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