SFB 1709Summer School

Basics of LLMs and how they work

Session materials — Cellular Plasticity in Myeloid Malignancies: From Mechanisms to Therapies.

The slidesAll 20, with the live widgets. Opens in your browser. Try it yourself — no installType into a real tokenizer, compare phrases, turn the temperature dial. Works on a phone. The hands-on notebookSix parts, no coding needed. Upload to Google Colab and run it. Everything, as a zipSlides, both notebooks, the synthetic data and the code that made it. 1.7 MB.

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Using the notebook

Download llm_workshop.ipynb above, then go to colab.research.google.comUpload notebook. Run the cells top to bottom with Shift + Enter. You never need to write any code — the parts you can play with are text boxes and sliders. First run downloads about 1.1 GB of models, so use decent wifi.

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