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LLM & Transformers course map — teaching whiteboard

Course map for LLMs and Transformers: tokens, prediction, attention, and the full stack — a free public chalkline whiteboard. · by zlu

Topics: LLM & Transformers

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LLMs & Transformers · tutoring path

Chalkline = live PPT · matheion MA-LLM = full lessons + quiz

S01 Tokens Open matching board + matheion session

S02 Next token Open matching board + matheion session

S03 Sampling Open matching board + matheion session

S04 Embeddings Open matching board + matheion session

S05 CNNs Open matching board + matheion session

S06 RNNs Open matching board + matheion session

S07 CNN/RNN gaps Open matching board + matheion session

S08 Soft lookup Open matching board + matheion session

S09 Self-attn Open matching board + matheion session

S10 Causal Open matching board + matheion session

S11 Scale+heads Open matching board + matheion session

S12 Positions Open matching board + matheion session

S13 Stack Open matching board + matheion session

S14 Train/gen Open matching board + matheion session

S15 Assistants Open matching board + matheion session

How we teach

1 · Board first One idea per slide. Headline + enough detail to speak aloud. No mid-sentence cuts.

2 · Matheion depth Same session number in matheion MA-LLM for prose, diagrams, auto-quiz.

3 · Sources under the hood llm.pdf soft-lookup notes · Attention Is All You Need for the architecture paper.

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