MIT talk on LLMs (video; descriptive title)

Resource/creator: Vishal Misra’s MIT talk on LLMs. @vishalmisraRecommended by: Martin Casado, who calls it the best talk on in-context learning and says it builds an intuitive grasp of LLMs. @martin_casado

Key takeaway: Misra describes a first-principles account that skips attention and transformers: SFT/RLHF/R reshape the distribution, while the underlying LLM remains a next-token predictor. @vishalmisraWhy it matters: It connects post-training methods to the model’s underlying prediction process—the intuition Casado specifically recommends the talk for. @vishalmisra +1