I learned TCP/IP by watching and reading raw packets over packet radio at 1200 baud.

I've noticed the same thing is possible if you watch the output of a slow LLM. Eventually you start to see the machinery. input tokens = output tokens, it's math. I can't exactly predict the tokens generated but I can see how they are formed. It's a lot like chess. You can't see every possible move but the mechanism is understandable.

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helloplanets 11 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

It's basically possible build an LLM using just routers+packets, and then hook them up to Wireshark to see it compute!

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trollbridge 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Comment <-> username synergy.

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Maledictus 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How would I set this up?

	▲	barrenko 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'd recommend to maybe also specifically watching Karpathy's videos and focusing on the early parts where he specifically deals with tokenization / embeddings generation (which gets really overlooked), and he does this in most of his videos.

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fragmede 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

https://distill.pub/2019/activation-atlas/

I can only imagine what sort of visualizations are going on today inside of the AI labs.