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The feeling of wanting to achieve that fancy job title, or that dream college weighs pretty heavily on all of us no matter what phase of your life you are reading this article, you have either felt that pressure or the harsh reality that you are not really taking strides in the direction towards that potential.
The success rate of getting a job at FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google) is around 1% of all applicants.
People don’t really listen, they just wait for their turn to talk, which is where the whole premise of this article comes from.
This is purely from a software engineering standpoint it could look different in other fields of engineering.
A ground-up look at tokenization, logits, temperature, softmax, and next-token sampling.