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- 1Feast Day Honors Roman Soldiers Martyred in Turkey in 315●Today is the feast day of Agapius, Atticus, Carterius, Styriacus, Tobias, Eudoxius, Nictopolion, and Companions, Roman s
Today marks the feast day of Agapius, Atticus, Carterius, Styriacus, Tobias, Eudoxius, Nictopolion, and their companions, Roman soldiers burned at the stake at Sebaste, in modern-day central Turkey, in the year 315. The commemoration is being noted alongside travel and history content about the Goreme region of Cappadocia, where early Christian heritage remains visible.
- 2Developer recommends building a language model from scratch●I've used LLMs for months without fully tracing every step from tokenizer to fine-tuning -- that gap bothered me. Sebast
A developer who has used large language models for months says the gap in their understanding of the full pipeline, from tokenization to fine-tuning, bothered them, and recommends Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)" as a fix. They say the book walks through the entire process, including model design, pretraining on a general corpus, and fine-tuning for specific tasks.