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A Hacker's Guide to Language Models
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A video walkthrough by Jeremy Howard covering how to use large language models in practice, with an emphasis on working with LLMs rather than their underlying theory. The course is distributed as a YouTube video.
One commenter points to it as a fantastic, practical video on how to use LLMs, recommended alongside Karpathy's neural networks course.
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I understand the sadness around not understanding it, it's fucking hard. however, there are more and more resources online getting published for how to get started understanding it that help with understanding the math at an abstraction that helps with learning how to build with it.
I would strongly strongly strongly recommend starting with karpathy's from 0 to hero neural networks youtube course - it starts with building a tensor library and back propagation, explaining it in a way that finally clicked for me https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAqhIrjkxbuWI23v9cThs...
jeremy howard also has a fantastic video that is more around how to use LLMs and such called a hacker's guide to language models - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkrNMKz9pWU&t=607s
as i've dove more and more into it, i would strongly recommend trying to run things on your local machine too (llama.cpp, ollama, LM studio). that has helped me fight that feeling of like "are we all just going to be open AI developers in the end" and made me feel like you _can_ integrate these things into stuff you build by your self. I can't imagine how fucked we'd all be if llama was never opensourced. being old does not mean that you can't continue to grow, and remember that it's okay to feel overwhelmed about all this - many people are.