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The history of LLMs in depth: from mechanical translation and AI winters to transformers and ChatGPT. By Turing Post.
Concepts
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15 min read
Oct 1, 2025
From the early trial-and-error concepts to today’s breakthroughs with RLHF, PPO, and GRPO, and where to go next, according to Andrej Karpathy and Richard Sutton.

AI 101
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12 min read
May 28, 2025
What is BERT in NLP? Learn how BERT works—MLM, NSP, fine-tuning—plus modern variants like RoBERTa, DistilBERT, ModernBERT, and ConstBERT in 2026.

Origins
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6 min read
Dec 14, 2024
Dzmitry Bahdanau? Yoshua Bengio? Jürgen Schmidhuber? Inspired by Andrej Karpathy and in collaboration with Hugging Face, we clarify the history of "attention"

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