The Best Introduction to LLMs I’ve Found¶
I’ve been getting more and more excited about Large Language Models (LLMs) lately, and have been inspired by Simon Willison’s call for more people to do link blogging.
As I’ve read more into the subject, I’ve come to understand concepts like Embeddings, and even discussed how to use them in Django.
However, there was still a significant gap in my understanding of how transformers work. I’ve watched a few YouTube videos and read several posts trying to clarify things. The best resource I found was this post from Understanding AI:
This post covers the topic in a really clear way, and I particularly loved this image:
The post overall is a great introduction, and I recommend reading the whole thing.
It seems fitting that my first link blog post of 2025 is about LLMs, and inspired in multiple ways by Simon :)
