Reasoning Models From Scratch: Code Setup
A little video that
- explains the relationship between conventional LLMs and reasoning models (and agents),
- philosophizes about “from scratch” approaches,
- and explains how to install the Python and PyTorch requirements with
uv.
The video is here: Build A Reasoning Model From Scratch #1: Motivation & Code Setup.
Source: website version of my Substack note.
Read Next
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.
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 pat
How Claude's Text Watermarking Works
Short illustration of how Claude's text watermarking is supposed to work based on Anthropic's released materials.