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:

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