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Pretraining

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A large language model is a transformer pretrained on next-word prediction over vast text collections — billions of knobs descending against prediction error.

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More training text than a person reads in ten thousand lifetimes; grammar, style, idiom, and fact-shaped regularity fall out of one objective.

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"Fact-shaped" is the honest term — descent rewards producing the text that typically follows, which overlaps truth imperfectly.