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Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s

Inspired by minGPT for home experiments.Requires CUDA 13.4; build script is Windows only.

41 points by lostmsu - 6 comments

6 Comments

_345 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Trying to be a little less negative than the guy that got flagged, I too don't understand the motivation behind these projects. I've seen a hundred of them at this point- and each of them is probably worse and has less learning value than the one Andrej Karpathy made to teach people the building blocks involved in a GPT

So, why do people keep making these? Asking genuinely

vjsrinivas [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Interesting trend of labeling models after how big they are on disk vs how many learnable parameters they have.
w4yai [3 hidden]5 mins ago
"hn1g.txt" => not available
jey [3 hidden]5 mins ago
At that scale it seems like you could just solve the KKT conditions directly. Exaggerating but only a little
fleshmonad [3 hidden]5 mins ago
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kadoban [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Jesus. Would hate to see the work you _do_ want to shit on.