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LLMs, the whole thing · Part 6

The first attention mechanism in Raschka's LLM book, explained the way it finally clicked for me, a Java dev who bounces off dense maths: self-attention is just three operations, a dot product, a softmax, and a weighted average.

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LLMs, the whole thing · Part 2

Every modern LLM is a transformer, yet BERT, GPT and T5 behave very differently. The first article in a ground-up series on LLMs: the single distinction — the attention mask — that separates an encoder from a decoder.

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