On sabbatical / created @PythonAnywhere.com, which found a home at @anacondainc.bsky.social / XP / Python / PSF Fellow / opinions my own / blog at https://www.gilesthomas.com| Bluesky Social
Posts in the 'LLM from scratch' category on Giles Thomas’s blog. Insights on AI, startups, software development, and technical projects, drawn from 30 years of experience.| www.gilesthomas.com
Posts in the 'AI' category on Giles Thomas’s blog. Insights on AI, startups, software development, and technical projects, drawn from 30 years of experience.| www.gilesthomas.com
Causal, or masked self-attention: when we're considering a token, we don't pay attention to later ones. Following Sebastian Raschka's book 'Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)'. Part 9/??| Giles' Blog
Archive of Giles Thomas’s blog posts from March 2025. Insights on AI, startups, and software development, plus occasional personal reflections.| www.gilesthomas.com
Although it might seem that AI will make it pointless, I still think it's worth blogging.| Giles' Blog
Learning how to optimise self-attention calculations in LLMs using matrix multiplication. A deep dive into the basic linear algebra behind attention scores and token embeddings. Following Sebastian Raschka's book 'Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)'. Part 7/??| Giles' Blog
How this blog now supports mathematical notation using MathML, enabling clean rendering of equations and matrices without JavaScript dependencies.| Giles' Blog
The essential matrix operations needed for neural networks. For ML beginners.| Giles' Blog
Boost your learning: Test Yourself PDF Learn how to create, train, and tweak large language models (LLMs) by building one from the ground up! In Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch) bestselling author Sebastian Raschka guides you step by step through creating your own LLM. Each stage is explained with clear text, diagrams, and examples. You’ll go from the initial design and creation, to pretraining on a general corpus, and on to fine-tuning for specific tasks. Build a Large Language ...| Manning Publications
