gpjt (Giles Thomas)
Getting started with LLM training| huggingface.co
Posts in the 'TIL deep dives' category on Giles Thomas’s blog. Insights on AI, startups, software development, and technical projects, drawn from 30 years of experience.| www.gilesthomas.com
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
Batching speeds up training and inference, but for LLMs we can't just use matrices for it -- we need higher-order tensors.| 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
Why dropout is kind of like the mandatory vacation policies financial firms have| Giles' Blog
I've added a Markdown version of the site for AIs to read.| Giles' Blog
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
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
