# Correction for Listing 6.5 in Build a Reasoning Model From Scratch

> Source: <https://sebastianraschka.com/blog/2026/reasoning-model-listing-6-5-correction.html>
> Published: 2026-07-25 08:18:12+00:00

# Correction for Listing 6.5 in Build a Reasoning Model From Scratch

Thanks everyone for all the kind words and feedback. Super happy that you are enjoying *Build a Reasoning Model (From Scratch)*!

Unfortunately, there’s a small typo in Listing 6.5 on page 198 (see the video below). The line `torch.manual_seed(0)`

should be `torch.manual_seed(5)`

.

This is a tiny change, but it’s needed to reproduce the generated response in Listing 6.5 and the corresponding log-probability outputs later in Chapter 6. If you use 0, the code is of course still correct but the numeric results may be a bit different, which could be confusing. Anyway, it should be a small 1 character change :).

This will be fixed in the next printing.

I am sorry about the oversight, and I hope this note saves you some debugging time.

Source: lightly edited website version of my [Substack note](https://substack.com/@rasbt/note/c-301484736).

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