A Hackers' Guide to Language Models

Why HN readers recommended it

Repeatedly named the best practical tutorial for using LLMs, with a well-liked fine-tuning section.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Jeremy Howard

Topic

practical llm usage

Format

tutorial

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

8

HN mentions in dataset

13

Recommendation years in dataset

2023–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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• Thanks a lot for this video, best LLM usage tutorial I've seen so far. At [VIDEO] when talking about valid use cases for a local model vs GPT4 is: "You might want to create your own model that's particularly good at solving the kinds of …

• An interesting solution to the blind spot error (taken directly from Jeremy Howard's amazing guide to language models - [VIDEO] ) is to erase the chat history and try again. Once GPT has made an error (or as the author of this article says, the …

• If you're looking for a practical guide on how to use LLMs, highly recommend "Hackers Guide to language models" by Jeremy Howard. 1.5h video packed with practical information: [VIDEO]