An LLM from First Principles
vogel@ryanvogeli made an llm from first principles with Jev 29 yes/no questions per character: should the next key be a–z, space, comma, or period? highest probability gets append to it, then fed the updated text back in & repeat an autoregressive loop made out of a…
- ▪vogel@ryanvogeli made an llm from first principles with Jev 29 yes/no questions per character: should the next key be a–z, space, comma, or period? highest probability gets append to it, then fed the updated text back in & repeat an autoreg
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| Original publisher | X (formerly Twitter) |
| Canonical URL | https://twitter.com/ryanvogel/status/2100218045549412499 |
| Publication time | Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:09:51 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-16T14:18:41.492Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-16T14:18:41.492Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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vogel@ryanvogeli made an llm from first principles with Jev 29 yes/no questions per character: should the next key be a–z, space, comma, or period? highest probability gets append to it, then fed the updated text back in & repeat an autoregressive loop made out of a classifier00:00Diogo Almeida@CompleteSkeptic20hAfter co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not led to AGI? I’ve spent the last 2 years in stealth building a new way to train models (RLCD), and a new type of frontier AI model that we are releasing today: Jev • 20-200x faster • 40-400x Show more00:001:39 PM · Sep 16, 2026!function(options){var element=document.getElementById(options.targetId);if(!element)return;var cached=document.querySelector('[data-timezone]');var…
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