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6th September 2022 - Link Blog

karpathy/minGPT (via) A “minimal PyTorch re-implementation” of the OpenAI GPT training and inference model, by Andrej Karpathy. It’s only a few hundred lines of code and includes extensive comments, plus notebook demos.

Posted 6th September 2022 at 2:52 pm

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