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6th January 2024 - Link Blog

GPT in 500 lines of SQL (via) Utterly brilliant piece of PostgreSQL hackery by Alex Bolenok, who implements a full GPT-2 style language model in SQL on top of pg_vector. The final inference query is 498 lines long!

Posted 6th January 2024 at 10:55 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 6th January 2024.

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