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The spelled-out intro to language modeling: building makemore
Andrej Karpathy

Andrej Karpathy builds a bigram character-level language model from scratch, introducing torch.Tensor and the framework of training, sampling and loss evaluation. It is the first step toward a GPT-style Transformer in his makemore series.
HN recommends it as a long but worthwhile way to demystify how language models work technically.
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