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28 July 2026 20 min read

Chess as autocomplete

Can autocomplete play chess blindfolded? A journey into applied AI research

Training a transformer from scratch to play blindfold chess, with the same recipe used to train modern LLMs.

Chess Transformers Machine Learning
27 April 2026 15 min read

Do you even know how LLMs work?

What they are, how they work, and how they are trained.

This post explores LLMs, the models behind services like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. The goal is to give you an in depth but approachable understanding of LLMs, how they work, and how they are trained. We will ignore some details, and provide simplified explanations where appropriate.

LLMs Training Inference Transformers Machine Learning