[HN Gopher] The Smol Training Playbook: The Secrets to Building ...
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       The Smol Training Playbook: The Secrets to Building World-Class
       LLMs
        
       Author : kashifr
       Score  : 90 points
       Date   : 2025-10-30 16:52 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | tsenturk wrote:
       | Hugging Face is not just an AI information-sharing website; it's
       | also a great learning platform for all AI learners. This
       | documentation is one of the most impressive hands-on resources
       | I've ever read.
        
         | abossy wrote:
         | What others would you recommend that are comparable in quality?
        
           | donkeyboy wrote:
           | The documentation for common ai packages is pretty good too.
           | For example, pytorch docs, peft docs, timm docs.
        
           | pixelmelt wrote:
           | Been reading a book by u/fpham "The Cranky mans guide to lora
           | and qlora" and it's pretty great, writing quality isnt all
           | there but the content is valuable for learning to make good
           | finetunes
        
       | lewtun wrote:
       | Hi, Lewis here (one of the co-authors). Happy to answer any
       | questions people have about the book :)
        
         | danielmarkbruce wrote:
         | I'm a little ways through this and it's great so far, nice job.
         | 
         | One of the reasons people build one though is to learn. Most
         | smart folks are quite aware that the reality of pre-training a
         | real LLM is going to involve some head banging against the wall
         | (ie, things don't go smoothly like "building an llm from
         | scratch" book), and they want to go through the process.
        
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