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Re:Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights by antonvs on Saturday October 31, 2026 @05:58PM (#50320652)
Glad it was helpful. If you have time for some extracurricular study, I'd highly recommend implementing an LLM. Implementing a toy version is really not that difficult, and can be very illuminating.

There are quite a few resources on the web that can help with this. One good one is Andrej Karpathy's "Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out.": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY

A somewhat more intensive one is "Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)" by Sebastian Raschka: https://www.sebastianraschka.com/llms-from-scratch/

And if you really want to go crazy, Stanford's "CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch" is online: https://cs336.stanford.edu/

(The last one is a full graduate-level course, so don't let it detract from your actual master's program!)

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