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Re: Microgpt

#11

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 2:47 AM UTC

tithos wrote: post #2

What is the prime use case

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Re: Microgpt

#12

Post by foodevl » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 2:54 AM UTC

geerlingguy wrote: post #4

tithos wrote: post #2

What is the prime use case

Looks like to learn how a GPT operates, with a real example.

Yeah, everyone learns differently, but for me this is a perfect way to better understand how GPTs work.

Re: Microgpt

#13

Post by inerte » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 2:54 AM UTC

tithos wrote: post #2

What is the prime use case

Kaparthy to tell you things you thought were hard in fact fit in a screen.

Re: Microgpt

#14

Post by pixelatedindex » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 2:54 AM UTC

aaronblohowiak wrote: post #3

tithos wrote: post #2

What is the prime use case

“Art project”

If writing is art, then I’ve been amazed at the source code written by this legend

Re: Microgpt

#15

Post by dilap » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 2:56 AM UTC

ViktorRay wrote: post #9

Which license is being used for this?

MIT (https://gist.github.com/karpathy/8627fe009c40f57531cb1836010...)

Re: Microgpt

#16

Post by fulafel » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 3:00 AM UTC

This could make an interesting language shootout benchmark.

Re: Microgpt

#17

Post by profsummergig » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 3:04 AM UTC

If anyone knows of a way to use this code on a consumer grade laptop to train on a small corpus (in less than a week), and then demonstrate inference (hallucinations are okay), please share how.

Re: Microgpt

#18

Post by ThrowawayTestr » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 3:06 AM UTC

This is like those websites that implement an entire retro console in the browser.

Re: Microgpt

#19

Post by Paddyz » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 3:08 AM UTC

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Re: Microgpt

#20

Post by misiti3780 » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 3:18 AM UTC

Paddyz wrote: post #19

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agreed - no one else is saying this.

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