@JoelHodlman I made a paper bitcoin wallet with my own entropy in 2014 to transact online. Still works the same in 2026, and everyday it keeps working my conviction builds.
Stanford just released the kind of LLM lecture Anthropic pays engineers $750,000+ a year to understand:
Not prompting
Not RAG
How to actually build language models from scratch
In this 104-minute lecture, they break down the full stack behind modern LLMs:
06:18 - how language models are built from raw data
21:42 - tokenization and model architecture
39:17 - why scaling laws predict model performance
57:36 - how compute, data, and parameters trade off
1:14:28 - what actually happens during post-training
1:34:11 - the engineering skills needed to build frontier models
This lecture is worth more than 100 LLM tutorials
Bookmark and watch it today
Then read the full guide to building language models from scratch below