This is an excellent book for someone to learn the basics of llms from scratch to go over the entire life-cycle by building lay...  Read More

This is an excellent book for someone to learn the basics of llms from scratch to go over the entire life-cycle by building layer-by-layer transformers, playing around with attention mechanisms, pre-training pipelines, fine-tuning for the most crucial application of nlp- classification, fine-tuning to follow instruction tuning as a comprehensive way to use the llms.  Read Less

This is very thorough and provides a good evaluation of what it will take to implement a complete llm package.

This is very thorough and provides a good evaluation of what it will take to implement a complete llm package.  Read Less

During the driver custom install (not the default simplified install) deselect nvidia geforce experience - caused errors for me5.

During the driver custom install (not the default simplified install) deselect nvidia geforce experience - caused errors for me5.  Read Less

Is available() it should return truei don't consider this a defect of the book - there is already enough hand-holding by the au...  Read More

Is available() it should return truei don't consider this a defect of the book - there is already enough hand-holding by the author - imho some work still needs to be done by the reader!  Read Less