gpjt (Giles Thomas)
Getting started with LLM training| huggingface.co
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
Should RSS feeds contain the full blog post, or just the introductory paragraphs?| Giles' Blog
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
Adding dropout to the LLM's training is pretty simple, though it does raise one interesting question| 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
Moving on from a toy self-attention mechanism, it's time to find out how to build a real trainable one. Following Sebastian Raschka's book 'Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)'. Part 8/??| 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
