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    Comment #47033544

    the untrained model is literally just generating random characters, whereas your examples are at least pronouncable. you can add more layers to get progressively better results.

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    Comment #47031363

    good catch - i intentionally cap node visualizations at 16 so it doesn't get super long, but the sidebar shouldn't have that

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    Comment #47028165

    not many. diminishing returns start before 1000 and past that you should just add a second/third layer

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    Comment #47027779

    hm. the way i see things, characters are the natural/obvious building blocks and tokenization is just an improvement on that. i do mention chatgpt et al. use tokens in the last q&a…

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    Show HN: Microgpt is a GPT you can visualize in the browser

    very much inspired by karpathy's microgpt of the same name. it's (by default) a 4000 param GPT/LLM/NN that learns to generate names. this is sorta an educational tool in that you c…