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A Hackers' Guide to Language Models
Jeremy Howard · 8 HN recommenders · 8 recommendation months
Recommended by 8 Hacker News commenters across 8 months (2023–2024).
SignalTube analysis
Among 3 other tutorial videos tagged LLMs & generative AI, the mean is 5.3 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 8 distinct HN recommenders, about 1.5× that mean. Recommendations span 8 distinct months, longer than the peer average of 3.3 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
77% of its 13 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2023–2024; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. A verified runtime is not present in the current metadata snapshot. A verified YouTube publication date is not present in the current metadata snapshot.
- Channel / speaker
- Jeremy Howard
- Verified runtime
- Not verified in the current YouTube metadata
- YouTube upload date
- Not verified
- Hacker News mention years
- 2023–2024
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other tutorial videos in LLMs & generative AI. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Hackers' Guide to Language ModelsCurrent video | 8 | 8 | 77% | — | Not verified in the current YouTube metadata | Not verified |
| Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out.tutorial · Andrej Karpathy | 14 | 8 | 70% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| The spelled-out intro to language modeling: building makemoretutorial · Andrej Karpathy | 2 | 2 | 50% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| Harry Potter By Balenciaga | Step by Step Tutorialtutorial · PromptJungle | 0 | 0 | 0% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Ask HN: Recommendation for a SWE looking to get up to speed with latest on AI”. Its short rationale: Part of a list for getting up to speed on using LLMs.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Ask HN: What ChatGPT prompt do you use to avoid code-writing hallucinations?”. Its short rationale: Source of Howard's system prompt the commenter uses.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Ask HN: What is your ChatGPT customization prompt?”. Its short rationale: Source of the custom ChatGPT system prompt.