
303 - How LLMs Work - the 20 minute explainer
About this episode
Ever get asked "how do LLMs work?" at a party and freeze? We walk through the full pipeline: tokenization, embeddings, inference — so you understand it well enough to explain it. Walk away with a mental model that you can use for your next dinner party.
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Show Notes
Words -> Tokens:
- OpenAI Tokenizer visualizer -
Visualize how text becomes tokens
Tokens -> Embeddings:
- RGB Color model - wikipedia
- Word2Vec technique - wikipedia
- Efficient Estimation of Word Representation -
original Word2Vec paper by Mikolov et al.
- Efficient Estimation of Word Representation -
Embeddings -> Inference:
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