The spelled-out intro to language modeling: building makemore
Andrej KarpathyYouTube ↗
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Karpathy trains a character bigram model on names. It conditions on the previous character and can be evaluated from the probabilities it assigned to the sequence that actually occurred.
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we're always working with just two characters at a timethe product of all of these probabilities