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# edu-32xl
title: 'Write §1: What is a language model?'
status: completed
type: task
priority: normal
created_at: 2026-03-13T22:01:47Z
updated_at: 2026-03-16T02:30:26Z
parent: edu-u2w7
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Next-token prediction as the core task. Intuitive framing: a model that guesses what comes next, trained on raw text. GPT-1 context. No code.