February 25, 2026 https://classroom.github.com/a/x_FJiXw6
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Today’s goal:
Humans: exist
Rest of the world:
You ruined a perfectly good monkey rock is what you did.
Look at it, it’s got anxiety!
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From Neural Networks to Transformers
The Scale-Up Era (2018–)
- ELMo (2018): contextualized word embeddings — same word, different vector depending on context
- BERT (2018): bidirectional training; dominated NLP benchmarks
- GPT (2018): unidirectional, predict-the-next-token — the design behind all modern LLMs
- T5 (2019): every NLP task as text-to-text