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RNNs by Hand, in Excel

From a small neuron to a small language model

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Prof. Tom Yeh
Sep 27, 2026
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Recurrent attention for infinite context, recursive transformers, state space models. To stay at the frontier, you need to go back to understand RNNs. I used to teach RNNs to give students the founda…

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