The spelled-out intro to language modeling: building makemore

We implement a bigram character-level language model, which we will further complexify in followup videos into a modern Transformer language model, like GPT. In this video, the focus is on (1) introducing torch.Tensor and its subtleties and use in efficiently evaluating neural networks and (2) the overall framework of language modeling that includes model training, sampling, and the evaluation of a loss (e.g. the negative log likelihood for classification). Links: - makemore on github: https://github.com/karpathy/makemore - jupyter notebook I built in this video: https://github.com/karpathy/nn-zero-to-hero/blob/master/lectures/makemore/makemore_part1_bigrams.ipynb - my website: https://karpathy.ai - my twitter: https://twitter.com/karpathy - (new) Neural Networks: Zero to Hero series Discord channel: https://discord.gg/3zy8kqD9Cp , for people who'd like to chat more and go beyond youtube comments Useful links for practice: - Python + Numpy tutorial from CS231n https://cs231n.github.io/python-numpy-tutorial/ . We use torch.tensor instead of numpy.array in this video. Their design (e.g. broadcasting, data types, etc.) is so similar that practicing one is basically practicing the other, just be careful with some of the APIs - how various functions are named, what arguments they take, etc. - these details can vary. - PyTorch tutorial on Tensor https://pytorch.org/tutorials/beginner/basics/tensorqs_tutorial.html - Another PyTorch intro to Tensor https://pytorch.org/tutorials/beginner/nlp/pytorch_tutorial.html Exercises: E01: train a trigram language model, i.e. take two characters as an input to predict the 3rd one. Feel free to use either counting or a neural net. Evaluate the loss; Did it improve over a bigram model? E02: split up the dataset randomly into 80% train set, 10% dev set, 10% test set. Train the bigram and trigram models only on the training set. Evaluate them on dev and test splits. What can you see? E03: use the dev set to tune the strength of smoothin