There's a note in Sebastian Raschka's LLMs-from-scratch github repository - "Recommendations for Getting the Most Out of a Technical Book".
replyHe recommends reading offline and code-free first (although chapter-by-chapter).
https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch/blob/cdbd33e6d57a...
You don't need to code to follow it, just read along
replyI read it in a cabin on a lake, far from any internet access, and without a computer. I still found it quite useful.
replyAsk and... ye shall receive!
Check out `Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation`.
reply...I wanna mention this book as well, although it doesn't fit the criteria: https://www.thelittlelearner.com[