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hypfer | on: Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models
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 | parent
Then you're not the target audience. This is intended for people who like learning things.
hypfer | root | parent
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.

ghurtado | root | parent | next
"I know I'm not the target audience and I don't have any interest in how things work, but let me tell you how you're wrong by telling you who the actual target audience is"

What's next? Are you going to give us your opinion of music genres you don't ever listen to? And tell us who should listen to them too, I suppose.

danielmarkbruce | root | parent | next
You are completely off base. His initial book was released almost two years ago. I post train models, for work, and I learned more from his book on LLMs than any other source on LLMs. There is a lot more to it than that book, but you have to start somewhere, even if you have a decent theoretical foundation. There are a bunch of people who learned how to build them from his book.

How do you think people learn to build/train models? It comes down from the sky?

hypfer | root | parent
That is a good counter (and the only interesting one in this subthread for that matter).

My core point I think is "first principles or nothing", but, thinking about what you said, I could potentially be off there.

I might be lacking the connection to and understanding of academia and how research and work gets done there. Maybe it actually isn't possible to do this work that way.

I doubt it. Strongly. But this is a valid counterpoint. (Which I had to kinda come up with myself, but anyway)

goobatrooba | root | parent | next
It seems that the videos are free to access so I don't understand this comment. You think he's getting rich off selling the accompanying book?
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zaphar | root | parent
You sound like you are projecting a bunch of motivations and assumptions about character onto other people. But you projecting such things onto another person is a terrible way to begin to understand something.

There are genuinely people who enjoy learning how something works by doing smaller scale versions of it themselves. This site happens to have a much higher average percentage of them than most other places.