⚡️ *Stanford Released a Free Course on Language Modeling from Scratch*
The university is currently teaching CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch - and uploading the full course to YouTube for everyone in real time.
*Here’s why it’s a big deal:*
• Anyone can learn to build their own language models from zero - completely free
• Full course: from architecture and tokenizers to RL training and scaling
• Explained step-by-step, beginner-friendly (even if you’re new to coding)
• Each lecture includes extra reading, assignments, and slides
📚 Course site: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs336
▶️ YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rO1NB9TD4iUZ3qghGEGtqNX
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