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<ul><li><p><span>the </span><a href="http://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/" rel="">Illustrated Transformer</a><span> by NAME_1;</span></p></li><li><p><span>a </span><a href="https://NAME_2.github.io/posts/2020-04-07-the-transformer-family/" rel="">more technical blog article</a><span> by NAME_3;</span></p></li><li><p><a href="https://amatriain.net/blog/transformer-models-an-introduction-and-catalog-2d1e9039f376/" rel="">a catalog and family tree</a><span> of all major transformers to date by NAME_4;</span></p></li><li><p><a href="https://github.com/NAME_5/nanoGPT" rel="">a minimal code implementation</a><span> of a generative language model for educational purposes by NAME_6;</span></p></li><li><p><a href="https://sebastianraschka.com/blog/2021/dl-course.html#l19-self-attention-and-transformer-networks" rel="">a lecture series</a><span> and </span><a href="https://github.com/rasbt/machine-learning-book/tree/main/ch16" rel="">book chapter</a><span> by yours truly.</span></p></li></ul> You should write your response with 250 or more words.
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