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Build a Large Language Model from Scratch
Sebastian Raschka
“two books I highly recommend”
“Sebastian is the author of two books I highly recommend for beginners and experts alike. First is Build a Large Language Model from Scratch”— Lex Fridman
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Build a Reasoning Model from Scratch
Sebastian Raschka
“two books I highly recommend”
“two books I highly recommend for beginners and experts alike. First is Build a Large Language Model from Scratch and Build a Reasoning Model from Scratch”— Lex Fridman
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Season of the Witch
David Talbot (inferred)
“It's a great book, Season of the Witch. I recommend it”
“It's a great book, Season of the Witch. I recommend it. A bunch of my SF friends who get out recommended it to me.”— Nathan Lambert
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Claude Code
Anthropic
“Claude Code is way better in that domain. It's remarkable”
“You can select the same models on all of them and ask questions, and it's very interesting. Claude Code is way better in that domain. It's remarkable.”— Lex Fridman
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Cursor Composer
Anysphere (inferred)
“I use Composer a lot because one of the benefits it has is that it's fast”
“I should say I use Composer a lot because one of the benefits it has is that it's fast.”— Lex Fridman
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Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
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“Nathan is the post-training lead at the Allen Institute for AI, author of the definitive book on Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback”— Lex Fridman
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Apple in China
Patrick McGee
“The book Apple in China by Patrick McGee, he talked about how hard the Apple engineers worked to set up the supply chains in China”— Nathan Lambert
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Cursor
Anysphere (inferred)
“I use basically half-and-half Cursor and Claude Code, because they're fundamentally different experiences and both are useful.”— Lex Fridman
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Claude Opus 4.5
Anthropic
“for code and any sort of philosophical discussion, I use Claude Opus 4.5. Also always with extended thinking.”— Nathan Lambert
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ChatGPT
OpenAI
“for my personal usage, most of the time when I look something up, I use ChatGPT to ask a quick question, get the information I wanted fast.”— Sebastian Raschka
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Gemini
“I use Gemini for fast things or stuff that I could sometimes Google, which is it's good at explaining things and the Gemini app has gotten a lot better”— Nathan Lambert
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GPT-5.2 Pro
OpenAI
“I will only use GPT-5.2 Thinking or Pro when I'm finding any sort of information query for work, whether that's a paper or some code reference”— Nathan Lambert
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Codeium
Codeium (inferred)
“I use the Codeium plugin for VS Code. You know, it's very convenient. It's just like a plugin, and then it's a chat interface that has access to your repository.”— Sebastian Raschka
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Codex
OpenAI
“Codex can often be as good from OpenAI, but it just feel a little bit rough around the edges. Whereas Claude Code makes it fun to build things from scratch”— Nathan Lambert
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Perplexity
Perplexity AI
“I should say, going to Perplexity here, Sebastian Raschka is a machine learning researcher and author known for several influential books.”— Lex Fridman
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The Legend of Zelda
Nintendo (inferred)
“Sometimes for pastime I play video games, like I like video games with puzzles, like Zelda and Metroid.”— Nathan Lambert
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Metroid
Nintendo (inferred)
“Sometimes for pastime I play video games, like I like video games with puzzles, like Zelda and Metroid.”— Nathan Lambert
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