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The Self-Taught Developer's Dilemma: Overcoming Knowledge Gaps As most of you know, I'm a self-taught developer. I always mention this- not to brag, but rather as a disclaimer, and maybe, just maybe... to earn a little bit of sympathy for my shortcomings. Driven by curiosity, I've acquired most of my knowledge through online courses, tutorials, articles, and a lot of trial and error. Whenever I delve into a subject, I take a hands-on approach: breaking it down into its smallest parts, building from scratch, and trying to learn as much as I can about it. However, I recently had a humbling experience that made me appreciate the importance of formal, or at least structured, education. I was watching a video where Mark Zuckerberg discussed their LLaMA model, and at some point he mentioned 4.5 billion parameters. I know what parameters are, so I had an idea what he meant, but much of it sounded like Greek to me. Like, I can understand say, 100 or even a thousand parameters, but...

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