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Micrograd a 24kb pure Python autodiff lib

https://github.com/brief-ds/micrograd
2•aglassofred•1y ago

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aglassofred•1y ago
A tiny Autograd engine whose only dependency is NumPy. Implements backpropagation (reverse-mode autodiff) over a dynamically built DAG and a small neural networks library on top of it with a PyTorch-like API. Both are tiny.

- 24 kilobytes code without tests - as portable as Python and NumPy - loads 10x faster than PyTorch, 30x faster than TensorFlow

This version is capable of working with matrices and higher-order tensors. For @karpathy's original scalar-based version, locate the code with tag scalar.

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1•zrk222•1m ago•0 comments

Simulation Apps Pinpoint Cause of Electronics Failures

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1•jacobchen7•1m ago•0 comments

Beyond Scarcity: How Abundance Shaped Economic Thought from Smith to Romer [pdf]

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1•ike_usawa•3m ago•0 comments

The Disruption Society [pdf]

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1•ike_usawa•4m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: When do you choose RAG over Fine-Tuning?

1•Harish_0089•5m ago•0 comments

Polling shows a growing political reckoning is coming for data centers

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2•mapping365•6m ago•1 comments

A graded registry of scientific results produced by or with AI

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Paper Rankings across live ArXiv categories

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Game Theory and the Dilemma of Degrowth [pdf]

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Gish Gallop

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1•chistev•13m ago•0 comments

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2•lucasmartinic•15m ago•3 comments

Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking

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9•dzdt•16m ago•0 comments

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NASA's new dark energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids

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1•joozio•17m ago•0 comments

HOM-AIMOS – cryptographically auditable persistent memory for agents

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Position: LLMs Can't Jump

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Bill Tai: We Need the Telecom Deregulation Act, but for Energy

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Ask HN: Anyone interested in building a harness-only benchmark?

1•GodelNumbering•27m ago•3 comments

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3•theandrewbailey•27m ago•1 comments

Scientific research trying to find the world funniest joke

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Apologise or Lose Safe Harbour: Parliament Panel's 3-Day Ultimatum to Zuckerberg

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Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontroller

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3•Lio•36m ago•0 comments

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Replacing static back end endpoints with an autonomous agent

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Australia's Jetstar to charge for carry-on bags in overhead lockers

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1•geox•39m ago•0 comments

No Data Centers in My Backyard

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8•Anon84•40m ago•9 comments

Mark Cuban, Michael Burry send strong warning on Nvidia, AI stocks

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4•mapping365•42m ago•0 comments