A Quick-ish Rundown of LLM Basics

Over the past few days, I've realized that there are a lot of folks out there using LLMs that haven't had an opportunity to dig, even a little, into the basics of how LLMs really work. And I guess that makes sense; for the most part, the average person doesn't have a lot of reason to know this. But if you're going to be a power user, there are things that would really help you to understand. Below are the most basic basics. Not covering everything, just some stuff that I think if you get then th