François Chollet Recommends Chapters for Building LLMs from Scratch
fchollet · x · 2026-08-25
Keras creator François Chollet recommends Chapters 15-16 of his book "Deep Learning with Python" for anyone, regardless of age, looking to learn how to build LLMs from scratch. He highlights that Chapter 15 contains one of the best explanations available for WHY dot-product attention works.
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