Re:The Illustrated Transformer
by Koshkin on Monday December 22, 2025 @03:51PM
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(Going on a tangent.) The number of transformer explanations/tutorials is becoming overwhelming. Reminds me of monads (or maybe calculus). Someone feels a spark of enlightenment at some point (while, often, in fact, remaining deeply confused), and an urge to share their newly acquired (mis)understanding with a wide audience.
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Maybe so, but this particular blog post was the first and is still the best explanation of how transformers work.
So?
There's no rule that the internet is limited to a single explanation. Find the one that clicks for you, ignore the rest. Whenever I'm trying to learn about concepts in mathematics, computer science, physics, or electronics, I often find that the first or the "canonical" explanation is hard for me to parse. I'm thankful for having options 2 through 10.