alt Hacker NewsGet Sebastian's book and build an LLM from scratch. The problem with most textbooks (on any subject, it's not unique to ML/AI) is they usually try to build the theoretical foundations first. In many cases things are better taught top down.
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dominotw • yesterday at 9:09 PM
i am actually looking for a book that follows like sebastian books but without any hands on coding . i am hoping to read in bed.
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I'm OK going through the learning itself (will definitely check out the book though, since it's so well liked!). The question is more, what do you do with that once the book or course is done?
For a junior coder, there's usually a path to recommend, joining some open source project or doing some home scripting, etc. Something where you can be useful even if it's not your full time job.
I'm wondering whether there's some similar hobbyist path available here, or whether there's too much of a jump between the educational/pop sci stuff and the professional realm. If it's the second, that's also fine, I just want to know if I'm missing something.