# Transformers, Simply Explained

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/transformers-simply-explained/33024>\
**Category:** Show and Tell\
**Created:** [March 4, 2023, 3:49pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/transformers-simply-explained/33024 "2023-03-04T15:49:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![ForBo7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/forbo7/32/28775_2.png) [@ForBo7](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/ForBo7)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 3:49pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/transformers-simply-explained/33024/1 "2023-03-04T15:49:37Z")

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I recently completed Chapter 2 of the HuggingFace course, and decided to write up a post explaining how transformers work, at a high level view and without any mathematics, so one can gain a general idea of their workings.

You can read it here:

> **[ForBo7 // Salman Naqvi - Transformers, Simply Explained](https://forbo7.github.io/forblog/posts/9_transformers_explained.html)**
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> Autobots or Decepticons?

If you have any comments, questions, suggestions, feedback, criticisms, or corrections, please let me know!
