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2026-08-22
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How Transformers Work
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FREE
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10 min read
Tokenizers from Scratch — The Unit an LLM Cuts the World Into
An LLM reads neither characters nor words. How BPE builds a vocabulary, what SentencePiece actually fixed, why some languages pay more for the same sentence, and what you trade away when you grow the vocabulary — worked by hand and in code, from zero.