A great visualisation that LLM are basically a bunch of numbers: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – dabochen/spreadsheet-is-all-you-need: A nanoGPT pipeline packed in a spreadsheet.
It also shows you that Excel is an excellent tool for working with numbers and formulas on a larger scale.
(note the file is a .numbers file developed in the Mac version of Excel)
Via:
- [Wayback/Archive] /Fay-lee-nuh/ on X: “Programmers: Spreadsheets aren’t code @chendabo: Hold my beer”
- [Wayback/Archive] Dabo on X: “I recreated an entire GPT architecture in a spreadsheet. It is a nanoGPT designed by @karpathy with about 85000 parameters, small enough to be packed into a spreadsheet file. It is great for learning about how transformer works as it shows all the data and parameters going”





