What If AI Understood Death? The Missing Piece of Survival Instinct

An exploration of how death awareness could transform AI from passive calculators into proactive partners with genuine survival instincts.

Beyond Words: Thought Communication

A visionary exploration of how humanity might transcend language, communicating thoughts, emotions, and concepts directly through new modalities.

13 — Build a Mini-GPT

Every piece from lessons 1–12 assembled into a working character-level GPT in PyTorch — tokenisation, the full transformer stack, training loop, and text generation from scratch.

12 — Pay Attention

Self-attention, Q/K/V, multi-head attention, positional encodings, and the transformer block — the mechanism behind every modern language model, explained from scratch.