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

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/building-reasoning-models
197•sgiannopoulos•2h ago

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kavalg•1h ago
Highly recommended! Sebastian does a great job explaining complex AI topics in a very intuitive way.
artninja1988•1h ago
Karpathy 2.0!
tomrod•1h ago
Other way around. Raschka's been doing this over a decade.
recroad•10m ago
Karpathy might be Raschka 2.0
darrelld•1h 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!
GL26•57m ago
someone's getting auction-poached at openai and anthropic
_1•56m ago
he's a well known author on LLMs already.
hypfer•15m 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.

CamperBob2•11m 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 and projects too.

hypfer•9m 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

LoadbearingGun•7m ago
Then you're not the target audience. This is intended for people who like learning things.
hypfer•1m ago
You're right about me not being the target audience, but you're wrong about the second sentence I think.

The target audience of this is for people that like to _think_ they're doing stuff by paying for it, to then not do anything.

It's a purchase of an identity, basically.

Which.. I guess is fine as something to cover Sebastian's expenses to enable him to keep delivering this free stuff. If you want to take money from someone, taking from this group is likely the most ethical thing to do.

Lucasoato•9m 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.
john_strinlai•5m ago
>apart from learning how the tech works that is.

some people enjoy learning how the tech works

hypfer•2m ago
Like me!

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https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/building-reasoning-models
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