Build a Small LLM From Scratch: A Tested GPT in PyTorch
A practical, fully tested GPT implementation in PyTorch with causal attention, training, sampling, baselines, checkpoints, and 25 tests. Tra...
Oct 1, 2026
19 min
Neural Networks, Explained Simply - Part 3: Activation Functions and the Problem with Straight Lines
Part 3 of our Neural Network Series: why depth alone doesn't help without activation functions, how sigmoid and ReLU work in plain language,...
Sep 27, 2026
3 min
Neural Networks, Explained Simply — Part 1: What Even Is a Neural Network?
The first post in our Neural Network Series: how a single artificial neuron works, built from an everyday decision, then stacked into a full...
Sep 9, 2026
4 min
Qwen3.8-Max: Alibaba Just Open-Sourced a 2.4 Trillion Parameter Monster — And It Changes Everything
Alibaba just dropped the weights for Qwen3.8-Max — a 2.4 trillion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model that autonomously coded for 16 days str...
Aug 16, 2026
10 min