[mrhether]

familiar with basic ML terminology might be an understatement

[godelski]

If you're starting from scratch scratch, these might be of more use to you. Second focuses on vision transformers, but all the concepts still apply.

https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/

https://medium.com/pytorch/training-compact-transformers-fro...

[uoaei]

This field moves very quickly. I don't think anyone can be expected to keep up who don't make it a weekly study subject or are actively employed in it.