Starting Afresh: Learning Transformer Models, LLM together

THIS SESSION WILL FOCUS ON TRAINING A SMALL MODEL. BRING EITHER WRITING MATERIAL OR COMPUTER. ONE CAN CHOSE TO TRAIN ON EXCEL/COLAB 0R ON PAPER BY HAND.

VENUE CHANGE: State Library WA: Goldfields Room(1st Floor)
EXPECTED Background:
Either: Intermediate programming and mathematics should be beneficial.
Or: Linguist/Language.

This is a workshop styled event aimed at understanding transformers and language.
We will drive the equations and program simple algorithms from scratch.

Trying to keep this updated.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lzX--Jo_7MD9uktgTd_IbXqvbHijbUP6q_S5G4pmTBU/edit#heading=h.jsd3g17mhs5l