The Evolution of Language Models

A Brief History The story of modern language models is like watching a family tree grow, with each new generation learning from the triumphs and mistakes of those who came before. Let’s trace this fascinating journey from 2017 to today. 2017: The Transformer Revolution The story begins with a research paper titled “Attention Is All […]

Two Students, Two Talents: The Story of How AI Learns Language

Remember how we compared a language model to an advanced autocomplete system? Well, here’s where the story gets interesting. Not all language models learn the same way. Imagine two students sitting in the same classroom, both brilliant, but each taught to master language through completely different methods. One becomes an incredible writer, the other becomes […]

Language Model

Think of a language model as a really sophisticated autocomplete system. You know how your phone suggests the next word when you’re texting? A language model works on that same principle, but at a much more advanced level. At its core, a language model is a program that has read millions of books, articles, and […]

Mastering TF-IDF: A Gamified Journey!

Understanding how computers “read” and understand text is a fascinating field. One of the most fundamental techniques for identifying important keywords in a document, relative to a collection of documents, is TF-IDF (Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency). I recently embarked on a gamified learning challenge to demystify TF-IDF, breaking it down into its core components. This […]