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whoateallthepy

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    Comment #43232150

    I learned Git from an O'Reilly book and I loved that it started with the internals first. The git CLI has some rough edges, but once you have concepts of work tree, index, commits …

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    Comment #38371025

    One point: if you are re-reviewing, other platforms (e.g. Phabricator, Gerrit) have much more developed ways to compare changes relative to one another.

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    Comment #35716314

    One thing to bear in mind is that these embedding vectors are high dimensional, so that it is entirely possible that the token embedding and position embedding are near-orthogonal …

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    Comment #35712666

    The tokenization is done by the tokenizer which can be thought of as just a function that maps strings to integers before the neural network. Tokenizers can be hand-specified or le…

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    Comment #35712203

    This is a great set of comments/questions! To try and answer this a bit briefly: The input string is tokenized into a sequence of token indices (integers) as the first step of proc…

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    Comment #34748235

    At the end of last year I put together a repository to try and show what is achieved by self-attention on a toy example: detect whether a sequence of characters contains both "a" a…

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    Comment #34572244

    I put together a repository at the end of last year to walk through a basic use of a single layer Transformer: detect whether "a" and "b" are in a sequence of characters. Everythin…