What actually goes on inside an LLM to make it calculate probabilities for the next token?| Giles' Blog
Working through layer normalisation -- why do we do it, how does it work, and why doesn't it break everything?| Giles' Blog
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
A pause to take stock: realising that attention heads are simpler than I thought explained why we do the calculations we do.| Giles' Blog
Batching speeds up training and inference, but for LLMs we can't just use matrices for it -- we need higher-order tensors.| Giles' Blog