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catapart
10mo ago
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"el" begins with a vowel sound, so "an" is the appropriate article.
Is not about the letter, it's about practical pronunciation. "An r before a u, and an m or an f".
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akkad33
10mo ago
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It depends on how you read it. You could say "a large language model".. I think both are right
CRConrad
9mo ago
Then the "an" tells us that the author pronounces "LLM" as "Ell-ell-em".
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