This semester I’m teaching "Fundamentals of LLMs" at the MVA master in Paris 🎓
I’ve turned my 1st lecture, "NLP before LLMs", into a blog post that goes from simple word counts all the way to attention.
The approach is learning by doing 💪 : each step comes with hands-on exercises inspired by key research papers.
Why practice by hand when an AI agent can write the code for you ? Precisely because it can ! When code becomes easy and cheap, understanding is what matters, and you will build it by doing the work yourself.
Have fun learning by doing !
👉 https://t.co/JmkqukPg2c
(Next up: Tokenizers. Stay tuned !)
You can achieve almost anything you want in life if you learn to master one thing: Shame. That fear of looking stupid. Fear of being judged. Fear of trying and failing in public. The reality is: People judge. People talk. And then… people forget. So, fuck what people think. Just do what you gotta do. This one singular mindset shift can change your whole life.