Raschka releases from-scratch reasoning model video course

Sebastian Raschka released an eight-video, 11-plus-hour course that builds reasoning models from a pre-trained LLM in Python and PyTorch, covering evaluation, inference-time scaling, reinforcement learning and distillation. It is a sequel to his earlier coding LLMs course.

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