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Re:The Brutal Harvard Class That Suddenly Everyone Wants to Take on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:40PM (#50278833)
I don't think so many of these books all together in one semsester
I think this is the best structured class out there that teaches how to scale LLMs . Hope the 17 year old knows linear algebra. Building an intuition for the shape of the matrices is important. A lot of understanding the 'building from scratch' means understanding choices like why RoPE instead of the original frequency based positional encoding. Start with Karpathy and then go to CS 336
The views of Terrance Tao on this is a great read https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.16753

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