Stanford launches CS312 'Deep Learning Alchemy': hands-on LLM experiments plus prediction quizzes
stanfordnlp · x · 2026-10-16
Stanford NLP shares Tatsu Hashimoto and Suhas Kotha's new course CS312, 'Deep Learning Alchemy': students build intuition by running experiments on small LMs, then test it via prediction quizzes — given an unseen code diff, can you predict what happens? The class takes an exam-heavy approach (7+ exams) in the hands-on spirit of CS336 'Language Modeling From Scratch', which fans praised for distilling empirical lessons from frontier lab tech reports.
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