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How Attention Works: Read Tiny Storyteller's Own Attention Maps
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How Attention Works: Read Tiny Storyteller's Own Attention Maps

Lesson 02: open up the 5.9-million-parameter model from Lesson 01 and read what all 24 attention heads look at. Query, key and value in plain words, the causal mask, why the KV cache exists, and the head that puts the most attention on a story's main character's name.

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Build an LLM From Scratch on a Free GPU in 5 Minutes: Tiny Storyteller
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Build an LLM From Scratch on a Free GPU in 5 Minutes: Tiny Storyteller

Lesson 01: a 5.9-million-parameter GPT trained from random weights on children's stories: 1,500 steps in 1.2 minutes of training on a free Colab GPU (the whole notebook is about 5 minutes). Every piece explained through Momo the monkey and Ella the elephant, with the real numbers and an honest look at what it wrote.

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