
Nicolas Pinto
@npinto
Stealth Architect (AI x Crypto + Arts). Prev: Private AI @ Perceptio (acq by Apple), Scientist/Lecturer @ MIT+Harvard. Also: Music Producer. Engineer. Investor.
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23-10-2008 18:37:58
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Wrapped up Stanford CS336 (Language Models from Scratch), taught with an amazing team Tatsunori Hashimoto Marcel Rød Neil Band Rohith Kuditipudi. Researchers are becoming detached from the technical details of how LMs work. In CS336, we try to fix that by having students build everything:


Very cool thread about the CS336 Language Models from Scratch course at Stanford taught by Percy Liang et al. Makes me wish I was a student again!






curious of why so many feel that Y Combinator has slipped from some sort of trusted gold standard to sketchy fast-food franchise? beyond the typical batch dilution & weak leadership arguments, is there anything deeper here ?

design for scale favor simplicity let data (scarce, so prioritize first) and computation (second) do the heavy lifting ht: Richard Sutton



