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by rustyhancock 129 days ago
There's two paths here.

Bottom up and top down.

Bottom up would roughly be 1. Picking a simple introduction to programming textbook ideally Python 2. Work through a building a transformer LLM in python 3. Move to training it on a corpus

You're not mastering each step. Reading the python book and doing some exercises is fine.

The top down: This 3Blue1Brown playlist will have you covered https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_67000Dx_...

Either way you want to meet in the middle. There is still a lot in the middle that isn't clear so don't try and work from the middle out!