Ask HN: How to Learn LLM Fundamentals

30 pointsAETackaberry2y ago10 comments

As a Software Engineer that is interested in learning LLM fundamentals, what is your recommended course of action? Are there any courses or curricula you would recommend?

10 comments

hislaziness2y ago

I really liked this series. https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html

AETackaberryOP2y ago

I am definitely planning to start with this series, seems like a no-brainer!

The part I'm unsure of is what next? Seems like diving into papers might be a decent leap. Who knows, maybe GPT-4 can help me bridge the gap

hislaziness2y ago

Papers would be good next step. The concept and the algorithms do not seem very complex. The training and fine tuning is what needs effort and infrastructure.

quickthrower22y ago

Thanks that series looks quite fun to do

TroyZ2y ago

For a high level overview of transformers/GPT, you can check out this article: https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/how-chatgpt-really-works-...

The article provides references to the original papers and other articles explaining the subject, which can be great sources to dive deeper.

bfg_damien2y ago

Here are a few resources that might help get you started:

1. A thread explaining the internal working of transformers: https://twitter.com/hippopedoid/status/1641432291149848576?s...

2. Paper by DeepMind which provides pseudo-code for important algorithms for Transformer models: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.09238.pdf

3. Another thread specifically on large language models: https://twitter.com/cwolferesearch/status/164044611134855577...

Once again these are not courses per se, but do provide intuitive explanations for how transformers work. There is also the nanoGPT series of videos by Karpathy on youtube. First video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY

felipelalli2y ago

http://www.iasylum.net/writings/2023-03-29-if-you-are-curiou...

jytechdevops2y ago

What a coincidence, I actually ran across this github repo for LLM fundamentals today: https://gist.github.com/rain-1/eebd5e5eb2784feecf450324e3341...

gl on your journey

is_true2y ago

I think this blog posts is nice overview to help you go deeper in the topics mentioned: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...

seydor2y ago

There s this guy who has made in depth videos about transformers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3xbVmpdJwU

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

10 comments

hislaziness2y ago

I really liked this series. https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html

AETackaberryOP2y ago

I am definitely planning to start with this series, seems like a no-brainer!

The part I'm unsure of is what next? Seems like diving into papers might be a decent leap. Who knows, maybe GPT-4 can help me bridge the gap

hislaziness2y ago

Papers would be good next step. The concept and the algorithms do not seem very complex. The training and fine tuning is what needs effort and infrastructure.

quickthrower22y ago

Thanks that series looks quite fun to do

TroyZ2y ago

For a high level overview of transformers/GPT, you can check out this article: https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/how-chatgpt-really-works-...

The article provides references to the original papers and other articles explaining the subject, which can be great sources to dive deeper.

bfg_damien2y ago

Here are a few resources that might help get you started:

1. A thread explaining the internal working of transformers: https://twitter.com/hippopedoid/status/1641432291149848576?s...

2. Paper by DeepMind which provides pseudo-code for important algorithms for Transformer models: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.09238.pdf

3. Another thread specifically on large language models: https://twitter.com/cwolferesearch/status/164044611134855577...

felipelalli2y ago

http://www.iasylum.net/writings/2023-03-29-if-you-are-curiou...

jytechdevops2y ago

What a coincidence, I actually ran across this github repo for LLM fundamentals today: https://gist.github.com/rain-1/eebd5e5eb2784feecf450324e3341...

gl on your journey

is_true2y ago

I think this blog posts is nice overview to help you go deeper in the topics mentioned: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...

seydor2y ago

There s this guy who has made in depth videos about transformers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3xbVmpdJwU

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse