https://jen1995.github.io/tags/translations/Recent content in Translations on Cohomology ZeroHugoen-USFri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jen1995.github.io/posts/transformers/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jen1995.github.io/posts/transformers/The full series in one post: why attention replaced recurrence; every building block of the Transformer — intuition, formula, PyTorch code, a numpy reference and an honest FLOPs count; then the assembled model, trained on a toy task, with the memory costs and the KV-cache explained.https://jen1995.github.io/posts/vae/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jen1995.github.io/posts/vae/A deep dive into variational autoencoders: the ELBO and its derivation, the reparameterization trick, CVAE — and the discrete-latent line of work (VQ-VAE, VQ-VAE-2, DALL-E) that grew out of it. With self-check questions and a hands-on notebook.