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New 📚 Release! How to Build and Fine-Tune a Small Language Model: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners, Researchers, and Non-Programmers by J. Paul Liu

You don’t need massive compute or big-tech resources to build real AI.

Link: https://leanpub.com/howtobuildandfine-tuneasmalllanguagemodel

#books #newreleases #ai #LLMs #technology #textbooks

This may be considered #HotTakes by some, I consider these #based: (no ragebait inteded!)

If you have a problem with these, please kindly fuck off in silence!

This list is non-exhaustive...

#NoHumanIsillegal: #FerriesNotFrontex!
#PNCHNZS! Being a racist, fascist or otherwise shit person is a choice. People can choose to deradicalize, but not 'choose' not to be targeted by Neonazis!
#NSAfDverbotSofort - no excuses!
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#HousingFirst, cuz #HumanRights are not negotiable, but precondition to even consider negotiations!
#UBI instead of #MeansTesting; Cuz survival is not optional!
#Education is a #HumanRight and should be provided to anyone without any paywalling or charges. This includes access to #Textbooks, which should be provided #DRM-free. All education material should be publicly available and it's creation and updates be paid by the public just like schools.
#ClothesHaveNoGender
#PublicTransport should be #free, #accessible and publicly funded and run.
All #infrastructure is a natural monopoly and should be publicly run and financed solely by either transit fees or public spending.
#accessibility should be mandatory without exceptions. Paywalling it should be criminalized as a hatecrime.
Every #home should have access to #DrinkingWater, Sewage Handling, #electricity and #fiber #internet. IDGAF if it's at some remote island or desert oasis!
#HealthCare is a #HumanRight, not a commodity!
#Politicans should have to obey the same #laws re: secondary income as #PublicServants and be barred from recieving any other #compensation, #bonuses or have any other income beyond the compensation for their post.
#Politicans should only be paid #MinimumWage!Wage
Everyone should have to contribute to #SocialSecurity programs and in return, everyone gets eligible. That means no exceptions for #billionaires and other rich people. If I have to afford ~ 20% of my paycheck for #healthcare then so can all the #Banksters!
#MinimumWage must be able to afford not mere survival, but actually be sufficient to afford #downpayment on a #home and not just #rent. It should also be automatically be adjusted with #inflation and not be a political bargaining chip!
Denying people access to legal #work is a crime against humanity. People should have a right to fair and non-discriminatory access to employment regardless of legal status.
#StockTrading should be regulated as #Gambling.
Advertising Gambling or using Gambling / #PayToLoose / "#PayToWin" / #P2W mechanics to minors should be as illegal as advertising cigarettes and liquor to them.
Banning or age restricting #LGBTQIA* content as "#AdultContent" should be illegal. #QueerErasure is indefensible. If you're to prudish to accept that #LoveIsLove then that's a "You" Problem!
#Cyberfascism needs to be outlawed and Corporations like #Palantir need to be disbanded, their assets stripped and their employees jailed for crimes against humanity. They are morally indefensible!
#BanBillionaires, strip them off their assets and wealth and redistribute it. #Billionaires should be sentenced to #CommunityService for life as means to (at least partially) undo harm caused.
#SuperUselessVehicles should be disincentivized and instead any #incentives and #subsidies should be given only to #PersonalLightVehicles of classes #L2e, #L5e, #L6e & #L7e.
#SexworkIsWork!
#CSAM is indefensible and authorities that shutdown Pedo Forums should be mandated to #delete [and report] all such content at the hosters and get them to delete it. This includes Kiwi Farms which got fired by Gandi [french registrar] for hosting CSAM!
It should be illegal to enforce foreign laws overseas. Yes this includes "#Embargos" from the #USA!
#Trump is a fascist POS and a bootlicker of #Putin!
#FuckICE
#MethanolFuelcell > #LithiumCobaltBattery
#Tabs > #Spaces
#TSV > #CSV > #MicrosoftExcel
#Markdown > #RTF
#OpenDocument > #OOXML
#PDF > #MicrosoftWord
#git > #subversion
#IRC & #Mumble, #MailingList > #discord
#XMPP+#OMEMO > any proprietary messenger
#PGP/MIME acceptance should be mandatory per law for all #eMails in #business and towards public offices
Every System that has a #clock inside has to self-adjust it correctly without user intervention. I don't care if it uses a time signal like DCF77, GNSS or NTP. Computers must syncronize their hardware clock to [Unixtime](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time) regardless of the used OS
#Police should only be allowed to carry and use what law-abiding citizens are to. If you don't trust your neighbour with a #gun, why would you trust a stranger who doesn't even have to evidence proper storage, training, proficiency and isn't subject to due diligence?
#QualifiedImmunity is #PoliceState horeshite and must never be allowed and retroactively canned. If you don't want #accountability or #consequences for those in power, you are a bootlicker.
Long-lasting peace in the #MiddleEast will most likely only happen if a unified #laicist nation compromising of #Israel and #Palestine gets built. It's just currently not intended to happen by both sides!
#Ukraine is the #LitmusTest for #EU & #NATO. If Ukraine doesn't win beyond the #StatusQuoAnteBellum (1994-2011) and doesn't get EU & NATO membership it'll either be destroyed by #Russia in Putin's neo-czarist ambitions and thus will legitimize & normalize the Russian #CrimeOfAggression, which will then focus on #Baltics and espechally #Finland. Already the western #cowardice of not following through on the #BudapestMemorandum puts the #NPT and the trustworthyness of the USA, #UK and The West in general into question.
A #TotalEmbargo against Russia is long overdue - including a #SeaBlockade, not just against the #ShadowFleet which poses a statistically inevitable risk for the #envoirment!
#NuclearPower is not #renewable and using precious radioactive elements to boil water to spin a turbine is an insult to #physics! #Renewables should be mandatory and we can talk about #Fusion once #ITER actually evidently works and is able to sustain net positive energy output into the grid.
"#AI" is #WastefulComputing and should be considered an #EnvoirmentalCrime and #CrimeAgainstHumanity, with all the prosecution it entails!
The only people that have a 'right' to be 'proud' of their #citizenship are those that actually had to put in effort to get #naturalized. People who won the #BirthLottery are disqualified.
Also anyone who is "proud" of their citizenship by birth evidently has achieved nothing on their own worth to be proud of! Even if it's just graduating school, driving license, forklift certification or some kind of art.
We need #RightToRepair, not only but espechally for #electronics! This includes tight mandates to provide #parts, #tools, #documentation and #support under #FRAND [fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory] terms.
#Patents on #Software, espechally #GameMechanics, should be illegal. No #patent should be issued without evidence of it being a genuine, new #invention with a demonstrable prototype. If #Kickstarter wouldn't accept it, then neither should any #PatentOffice!
#Patents of lifeforms and DNA have to be outlawed.
#Copyright to something should cease the moment the copyright holder refuses to offer the copyrighted work under FRAND terms. If buying isn't ownership than #piracy isn't #theft. Also #OneTimePurchase options [for a specific version] should be mandatory by law and #subscriptions only be allowed for products and services that actually incur costs to upkeep (i.e. bandwith and storage for hosting/streaming). Designing something as "#LiveService" when it has no reason (i.e. refusing to sell physical copies) to should be deemed a fraudulent circumvention of it.
"#ClientsideAnticheat" is #malware and needs to be prosecuted as such. Any "#AntiCheat" should be Server-Sided only.
#PriceGouging must be prosecuted harder, espechally when it comes to #utilities.
Just like #FuelPrices at a #GasStation, so should #ChargingStations be mandated to publish their pricing publicly in realtime and not discriminate customers!
Everyone should have a #RightToBanking without discrimination. Any closure of accounts must be legitimized by actual criminal activity (i.e. money laundering, fraud, terrorism financing, ...) and go through due process with appeals.
Everyone should have a right to free, unseizeable #ID documents without mandating #biometrics or other privacy invasions! These should be eligible as Travel #Passport and people should have global #FreedomOfMovement only restricted by an actual, individual judge ruling that went through proper oversight and appeals. Duplicate Issues to avoid Visa Conflicts (with duplicate Serial Numbers!) should be offered and granted upon request.
#Gender does not belong into ID documents! Just like weight, hair colour, religion, occupation and address don't!

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🎓🔗 Dive into the thrilling world of algebraic spaghetti and Gordian shoelaces: a textbook so riveting it'll make braids, knots, and tangles sound like a TED talk on watching paint dry. 😂 Just what every student needs—another academic snooze fest disguised as "open resources." 💤📚
https://matthematics.com/redoak/redoak.html #algebraicspaghetti #Gordianshoelaces #academicresources #textbooks #educationhumor #studentlife #HackerNews #ngated

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#textbook #textbooks

New 📚 Release! How to Build and Fine-Tune a Small Language Model: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners, Researchers, and Non-Programmers by J. Paul Liu

You don’t need massive compute or big-tech resources to build real AI.

Link: https://leanpub.com/howtobuildandfine-tuneasmalllanguagemodel

#books #newreleases #ai #LLMs #technology #textbooks

AI Masterclass https://leanpub.com/set/leanpub/aimasterclass by Henrik Kniberg, Obie Fernandez, and Andriy Burkov is the featured Track on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com #DigitalTransformation #Gpt #Ai #SoftwareArchitecture #RubyOnRails #Textbooks #DataScience

When you successfully complete the Track, you will receive a verified Certificate of Completion from Leanpub, certifying that you have completed the entire Track.

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Consider what happened in Texas in 2010. As part of a highly publicized revamp of the state social studies curriculum, the Republican-controlled Texas Board of Education removed slavery as the central cause of the Civil War and replaced it with states' rights and secession, with Republican board member Patricia Hardy calling slavery "an after issue." The Republican members also considered referring to the slave trade as the "Atlantic Triangular Trade" before finally settling on "Transatlantic Slave Trade."

The new curriculum was silent on the KKK during Reconstruction and failed to mention the Jim Crow era at all. It also equated Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln.

In addition, the curriculum claimed that Joseph McCarthy was correct when he said the U.S. government had been infiltrated by communists in the 1950s, included lessons on why the U.S. needs to return to the gold standard, and asserted that the United Nations, International Criminal Court, and global environmental initiatives undermined U.S. sovereignty. And it scrubbed any mention of Thomas Jefferson's role in U.S. history because he advocated for the separation of church and state.

https://www.facingsouth.org/2019/04/twisted-sources-how-confederate-propaganda-ended-souths-schoolbooks

#confederacy
#confederate
#LostCause
#UnitedDaughtersOfTheConfederacy #UDC
#slavery
#education
#textbooks
#censorship
#BookBans
#Lincoln
#Jefferson
#McCarthyism
#UN
#JimCrow
#Texas
#KKK
#ICC
#Reconstruction
#redemption
#racism
#WhiteSupremacy
#GoldStandard (yes, the clamour for the gold standard is part of white supremacy OMG no-one told me)

The Hundred-Page Language Models Course http://leanpub.com/courses/leanpub/theLMcourse by Andriy Burkov is the featured course on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com #Ai #Gpt #Textbooks #DataScience #ComputerScience #NeuralNetworks #DeepLearning #Linguistics

Master language models through mathematics, illustrations, and code―and build your own from scratch!

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AI Masterclass https://leanpub.com/set/leanpub/aimasterclass by Henrik Kniberg, Obie Fernandez, and Andriy Burkov is the featured Track of online courses on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com #DigitalTransformation #Gpt #Ai #SoftwareArchitecture #RubyOnRails #Textbooks #DataScience

These courses include nearly NINE HOURS of EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS with the authors for you to watch at your own pace.

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Nhà xuất bản Giáo dục Việt Nam đã trao tặng 366.000 bản sách giáo khoa để hỗ trợ các em học sinh tại vùng lũ lụt tỉnh Đắk Lắk, giúp các em sớm ổn định việc học tập sau thiên tai.

#ViệtNam #ĐắkLắk #hỗtrợ #lũlụt #sáchgiáokhoa #giáodục
#Vietnam #DakLak #support #flood #education #textbooks

https://vtcnews.vn/nxb-giao-duc-viet-nam-ho-tro-sach-giao-khoa-cho-hoc-sinh-vung-lu-lut-dak-lak-ar988723.html

#Alabama #taxpayers are funding #Christian #textbooks that lie to #children

Last year, Alabama passed the #CHOOSEAct, which gives #families thousands of dollars to spend on #privateschool #tuition, #privatetutoring, or #educational material.

That means we now have a sense of how that money is being used. According to Rebecca Griesbach of AL com, a lot of the money is funding #Christianity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QSANxK_m2o

Đại biểu Quốc hội đề xuất cần có một bộ sách giáo khoa (SGK) dùng chung cho cả nước. Bộ SGK này phải đạt chuẩn, có tính hiện đại, chất lượng cao và mang đậm bản sắc văn hóa Việt Nam, do đội ngũ có năng lực và trách nhiệm biên soạn.

#ViệtNam #GiaoDuc #SachGiaoKhoa #QuocHoi #VanHoa
#Vietnam #Education #Textbooks #Politics #Culture

https://vtcnews.vn/dbqh-bo-sach-giao-khoa-dung-chung-phai-chuan-hien-dai-tham-dam-van-hoa-viet-ar990679.html

Generative AI Professional Prompt Engineering Guide by George Tome is free with a Leanpub Reader membership! Or you can buy it for $19.00! http://leanpub.com/genaipromptingguide #Gpt #Textbooks #Engineering #Ai #Education

Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine, Eleventh Edition by David Randall et al, 2025

The go-to textbook for medical students.

Designed to be as easy to understand as it is comprehensive, Kumar & Clark's Clinical Medicine is the definitive guide for medical students and doctors in training.

https://shop.elsevier.com/books/kumar-and-clarks-clinical-medicine/randall/978-0-443-12594-2

#books
#nonfiction
#textbooks
#medicine
#ClinicalMedicine

Revised and updated to reflect the structure of modern medical care, an all-new Acute Medicine chapter focuses on the initial, problem-based assessment of the unwell patient. Chapters on Medical Specialties explore the diagnosis and management of patients with chronic disease across the spectrum of systems-based disorders. Sections on The Practice of Medicine, Medicine and the world and Medicine Throughout Life explore medicine in its wider context, addressing the health needs of the population as well as specific patient groups.

This book has been the must-have text for medical students and doctors in training for over 35 years. The 11th edition has been fully updated and restructured to suit the needs of a contemporary audience.
A unified chapter format makes the book easy to read and navigate
Comprehensive content includes clinical skills, basic medical sciences, and individual conditions
Succinct notes on clinical emergencies, differential diagnosis, and practical procedures
Fully revised and updated throughout
Increased representation of diverse populations including dermatological disease in different skin tones
New chapters include:
Acute Medicine
Radiology
Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine
Stroke Medicine
General Hospital Psychiatry
Obesity
Young Adult Medicine
Sex and Gender in Medicine

The following 3 courses are included in this track...

Generative AI in a Nutshell
Patterns of Application Development Using AI
The Hundred-Page Language Models Course

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Animal Behavior: Concepts, Methods, and Applications by Shawn E. Nordell & Thomas J. Valone, 2024

Animal Behavior has garnered praise from reviewers for its accessibility, student engagement, and profound exploration of major concepts and empirical methods in animal behavior. The goals of this text are to allow students to learn how knowledge about animal behavior is generated and to promote an inquiry-based process.

#books
#nonfiction
#textbooks
#animals
#ethology
#AnimalBehaviour

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