I just started reading his book, and he makes it easy to grasp difficult concepts. As a matter of fact, I have been working on platform where you can learn how AI models work in an interactive manner.
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!
I don't like working with neural networks and I always found everything overcomplicated or oversimplified, sometimes both at the same time.
But this book almost perfect. Every mew concept is well described and every is well founded. And every step moves you forward (if you know, you know)
I like it too. Haven't got very far through it yet but just learning about how to use PyTorch and finally getting how back propagation works via autograd etc. was really fun and enlightening.
Highly recommended! Sebastian does a great job explaining complex AI topics in a very intuitive way.
Karpathy 2.0!
They are contemporaries - cs231n and Sebastian's first ML book came out in 2015 - both excellent!
Other way around. Raschka's been doing this over a decade.
Karpathy might be Raschka 2.0
I have read both and the are excellent
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someone's getting auction-poached at openai and anthropic
he's a well known author on LLMs already.
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.
You can follow his book and learn how to build an LLM from scratch. What is the issue?
It's also not a bad foundation for people who want to understand how these things are trained and work.
>apart from learning how the tech works that is.
some people enjoy learning how the tech works
Like me!
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.
You wrote so many words to say .. nothing of substance .. i still have no clue what you are criticizing.
I think you actually do and that is exactly what resulted in this style of reply.
It's a critique of the people and the lack of substance. But not of the author. The author is highly capable.
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.
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
Then you're not the target audience. This is intended for people who like learning things.
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?