Hands-On Large Language ModelsJay Alammar, Maarten Grootendorst
Hands-On Large Language Models
by Jay Alammar, Maarten Grootendorst · first published 2024
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on “Open-source AI and open models reading list” ↗We actually just wrote a book with your profile in mind -- especially if by "AI" you're especially interested in LLMs and if you're a visual learner. It's called Hands-On Large Language Models and it contains 300 original figures explaining the main couple hundred intuitions and applications for these models. You can also read it online on the O'Reilly platform. I find that after acquiring…
on “Ask HN: Recommendation for a SWE looking to get up to speed with latest on AI” ↗Ask and... ye shall receive! Check out `Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation`. ...I wanna mention this book as well, although it doesn't fit the criteria: https://www.thelittlelearner.com[
on “Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models” ↗…https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1633437167 LLM Engineer's Handbook: Master the art of engineering Large Language Models from concept to production (ships Nov. 11th) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1836200072 Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation (ships ???) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1098150961
on “Ask HN: Best books on introduction to AI/LLMs?” ↗…LangChain". A certain well-known ML person even runs a course on LangChain, as if it's a "fundamental" thing to know about LLMs. I was also surprised/disappointed to see that the otherwise excellent "Hands-on Large Language Models" book from O'Reilly has extensive examples using this library. In Apr 2023 we (CMU/UW-Madison researchers) looked into this lib to build a simple RAG workflow that was slightly different from the canned…
on “Taming LLMs – A Practical Guide to LLM Pitfalls with Open Source Software” ↗Have you read his book Hands-On Large Language Models? Looks interesting, but I'm skeptical that a book can feasibly stay up to date with the speed of development.
on “The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1” ↗Official code repo for the O'Reilly Book - "Hands-On Large Language Models" No text of the book in there.
on “Hands-On Large Language Models” ↗