Podcast Episode
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.
Embeddings -> Inference:
Word embedding
Temperature, Top-k, Top-p samping
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Co-hosts:
Kaushik Gopal
Iury Souza
[!fyi] We transitioned from Android development to AI starting with
Ep. #300. Listen to that episode for the full story behind
our new direction.