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    Orientation & Foundations

    Build an accurate mental model of language models and the mathematics needed for everything that follows.

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    Orientation & Foundations

    Build an accurate mental model of language models and the mathematics needed for everything that follows.

    1. What is a language model, really?
    2. A 60-second history: n-grams to the GPT-5 era
    3. Probability you actually need
    4. Vectors, matrices, and dot products
    5. Matrix multiplication as transformation
    6. Derivatives and gradients, geometrically
    7. Python, NumPy, and PyTorch in 20 minutes
    8. How to read an ML paper