TOtosh·Apr 21, 2024Submission
A hacker's guide to Language Models
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Hackers' Guide to Language Models
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3 sourcesShow HN: Hackers Guide to Language Models
8 points · Open discussionThis was excellent. Here's the notebook that accompanies the video: https://github.com/fastai/lm-hackers/blob/main/lm-hackers.ip...
I thought the selection of projects was great - some OpenAI API hacking including a Code Interpreter imitation created using OpenAI functions, then some Hugging Face model local LLM execution, and then a fine-tuning example to build a text-to-SQL model somehow crammed into just 10 minutes at the end!
In A hacker's guide to language models [video]