gpjt (Giles Thomas)
Getting started with LLM training| huggingface.co
I'm still working through chapter 4 of Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)". This chapter not only puts together the pieces that the previous ones covered, but adds on a few extra steps. I'd previously been thinking of these steps as just useful engineering techniques ("folding, spindling and mutilating" the context vectors) to take a model that would work in theory, but not in practice, and make it something trainable and usable -- but in this post I'll expl...| Giles' blog
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 'Musings' 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
Why dropout is kind of like the mandatory vacation policies financial firms have| Giles' Blog
