Two Live Book Club Q&As on September 3
Two free live book club Q&A sessions on September 3 about Build a Reasoning Model From Scratch and related reader questions.
Sebastian Raschka1 min read
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Markov Chains Explained: The Memoryless Math Behind Google, Monte Carlo, and ChatGPT (2026)
A Markov chain predicts the future using only the present. How one 1913 argument about free will produced PageRank, Monte Carlo, and modern language models.
Taskade Blog41 min read
Compression Is Intelligence: What Cross-Entropy Really Measures (2026)
Cross-entropy measures prediction error in bits. Learn how Shannon entropy, data compression, and the training loss of a large language model turn out to be the same idea.
Taskade Blog31 min read
GLM-5.3-Flash Architecture Notes
Architecture note on GLM-5.3-Flash, formerly Ox Alpha, covering its KDA and MLA/DSA hybrid attention, sparse MoE backbone, and four-stream mHC residual path.
Sebastian Raschka1 min read
An Update on Metadata Routing
Author: Stefanie Senger This blog post is a cross-post of a Probabl blog post and based on a talk given at EuroSciPy 2026 in Kraków (slides).
Scikit-Learn Documentation Blog7 min read
How Claude's Text Watermarking Works
Short illustration of how Claude's text watermarking is supposed to work based on Anthropic's released materials.
Sebastian Raschka2 min read
Build a Reasoning Model From Scratch Is Now on Amazon
Short note on the Amazon availability of Build a Reasoning Model From Scratch and a warning about counterfeit black-and-white copies sold through Amazon India.
Sebastian Raschka2 min read
Muse Glimmer 30B Architecture Notes
Short architecture note on Meta Muse Glimmer 30B, including gated local and global GQA, KV-cache efficiency, and release-time benchmark comparisons.
Sebastian Raschka2 min read
LLMs From Scratch Reaches 100,000 GitHub Stars
Short note celebrating the LLMs-from-scratch repository passing 100,000 GitHub stars and summarizing its learning materials.
Sebastian Raschka2 min read
The benefits of medical AI assistance vary based on user expertise
Study finds non-experts deferred to LLM-based diagnostic assistance, even when it was wrong, while clinicians caught AI errors.
MIT News - AI6 min read
Kimi K3 Architecture Notes
Short architecture note on Kimi K3, including LatentMoE, Kimi Delta Attention, Attention Residuals, NoPE, multimodality, and inference-efficiency choices.
Sebastian Raschka2 min read
A Few Notable Open-Weight Models This Week
Short note on the architectures of six new open-weight models, including Nanbeige 4.2, Laguna S 2.1, Motif-3-Beta, Solar Open 2, Antares 1B, and BTL-3.
Sebastian Raschka3 min read
Correction for Listing 6.5 in Build a Reasoning Model From Scratch
Short correction note for the random seed in Listing 6.5 on page 198 of Build a Reasoning Model From Scratch.
Sebastian Raschka1 min read
Inkling: A New Open-Weight 975B MoE with a Few Surprises
Architecture and benchmark notes on Thinking Machines Lab's 975B Inkling MoE, including short convolutions, relative-position bias, training, and effort control.
Sebastian Raschka4 min read
200,000 Subscribers
Short note celebrating Ahead of AI reaching 200,000 subscribers.
Sebastian Raschka1 min read
GPT 5.6 Has 72 Possible Configurations. What's A Good Default?
Short note on how GPT 5.6 model and effort choices map onto training-time and inference-time scaling, producing 72 configurations.
Sebastian Raschka1 min read
Build a Reasoning Model From Scratch Is Out
Short note announcing the release of Build a Reasoning Model From Scratch and linking the publisher and Amazon pages.
Sebastian Raschka2 min read
Using Local Coding Agents
Short note linking a new article on setting up local coding agents with open-weight models.
Sebastian Raschka2 min read
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