NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy • Hacker News Board

Still under development, remaining work includes tuning nanochat (current state being solid v0.1) and finalizing the in-between projects so that students can "unlock" all complexity that hides underneath: `torch.Tensor`, `torch.dist`, `.backward()`, '.compile()`, etc. And then the more ops heavy aspects.

Re: NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy

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Post by IOT_Apprentice » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 5:39 PM UTC

jackphilson wrote: post #10

nsriv wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Controlling culture, yes but wild pivot to mention that criminal alongside Karpathy.

I mean just an example. He obviously wasn't the most ethical person. Depends how you do it

Neither are Stalin, Netanyahu, Pol Pot, Hitler, Charles Manson et al.

Way to derail the conversation. Focus on the positive people and their legacy of time, sharing, positive energy and contributions to society

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Post by codybontecou » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 5:40 PM UTC

swyx wrote: post #14

> Thank you to chief LLM whisperer Alec Radford for advice/guidance. oh man an Alec x Andrej podcast would BREAK THE INTERNET... just saying... going from glory days of GPT1 to now building GPT3? in 4 hours

Please oh please. This would be perfect.

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Post by cultofmetatron » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 5:42 PM UTC

nsriv wrote: post #9

jackphilson wrote: post #8

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Controlling culture, yes but wild pivot to mention that criminal alongside Karpathy.

not a particularly ethical guy and I wouldn't hold him up as a example of morality but the guy hasn't actually been found guilty YET. Multiple courts have tried. You'd think that for a guy under as much scrutiny as him that they would have SOMETHING to pin him on by now.

Innocent until PROVEN guilty is a foundational legal precedent for a reason.

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Post by mhitza » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 5:43 PM UTC

Should be "that you can train for $100"

Curios to try it someday on a set of specialized documents. Though as I understand the cost of running this is whatever GPU you can rent with 80GB of VRAM. Which kind of leaves hobbyists and students out. Unless some cloud is donating gpu compute capacity.

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Post by jackphilson » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 5:46 PM UTC

IOT_Apprentice wrote: post #16

jackphilson wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean just an example. He obviously wasn't the most ethical person. Depends how you do it

Neither are Stalin, Netanyahu, Pol Pot, Hitler, Charles Manson et al. Way to derail the conversation. Focus on the positive people and their legacy of time, sharing, positive energy and contributions to society

not derailing, just pointing out effective ways of producing good which is what i was responding to. i think its good for people to be aware of this. those people are all examples of people who have influenced culture for bad. you can do it for good: bryan johnson, civil rights leaders, leftist streamers. andrew tate was just the most effective, recent, and obvious one which is why I pointed him out.