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AI course on reasoning models gains traction amid Hacktoberfest challenge

Sebastian Raschka's video course on building reasoning models from scratch has gained significant attention, topping Hacker News. This course appears to be part of a larger "Open-Source AI Challenge" associated with Hacktoberfest, focusing on AI, security, and software development. The content also touches upon the importance of rigorous analysis and avoiding confident but incorrect assumptions when dealing with complex systems, drawing parallels to engineering principles. AI

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AI course on reasoning models gains traction amid Hacktoberfest challenge

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 Tiếng Việt(VI) · [email protected] ·

    This week Sebastian Raschka's video course "build reasoning models from scratch" is trending on Hacker News. Many people after watching will ask: "It's good, but I...

    Tuần này khóa học video "build reasoning models from scratch" của Sebastian Raschka đang lên top Hacker News. Nhiều bạn xem xong sẽ hỏi: "Hay đấy, nhưng mình không có cụm GPU để train RL thì làm được gì?". Câu trả lời là có. Trong các kỹ thuật làm model "suy luận tốt hơn", có một…

  2. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Week 4 Last week I introduced... # devchallenge # hf26challenge # ai # security # software

    This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Week 4 Last week I introduced... # devchallenge # hf26challenge # ai # security # software # coding # development # engineering # inclusive # community When a Real Website Taught My Agent-Security Scanner Some M…

  3. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Thirty years of confident wrong answers I have spent thirty years walking into rooms where a distributed system was misbehaving in production and somebody was c

    Thirty years of confident wrong answers I have spent thirty years walking into rooms where a distributed system was misbehaving in production and somebody was certain they knew why. Often they were wrong. Not stupid. Wrong, and confident. I went to school for aerospace engineerin…