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CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch
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Stanford CS336 focuses on language modeling from scratch, with lectures held on Mondays and Wednesdays from 3:00-4:20pm in Skilling Auditorium. Office hours are available for course staff at various times and locations throughout the week.
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- Praise: The course allows for scaling down to local compute, making it accessible for learners without high-end GPUs, which democratizes AI education.
- Praise: Students have successfully trained reasonably good models on lower-end GPUs, indicating that effective learning and experimentation can occur without expensive resources.
- Praise: The updates to assignments, particularly in alignment and distributed tasks, reflect a commitment to keeping the curriculum relevant and challenging.
- Concern: Concerns were raised about the necessity of high-cost GPU resources for beginners, suggesting a potential barrier to entry for those new to AI.
- Concern: Some users expressed confusion about why the educational institution does not provide required resources, highlighting a gap in support for students.