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Microgpt explained interactively

https://growingswe.com/blog/microgpt
114•growingswe•12h ago

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politelemon•1h ago
> By the end of training, the model produces names like "kamon", "karai", "anna", and "anton". None of them are copies from the dataset.

Hey, I am able to see kamon, karai, anna, and anton in the dataset, it'd be worth using some other names: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karpathy/makemore/988aa59/...

ayhanfuat•1h ago
You are absolutely right. The whole post reads like AI generated.
butterisgood•53m ago
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re•43m ago
I didn't get that sense from the prose; it didn't have the usual LLM hallmarks to me, though I'm not enough of an expert in the space to pick up on inaccuracies/hallucinations.

The "TRAINING" visualization does seem synthetic though, the graph is a bit too "perfect" and it's odd that the generated names don't update for every step.

jsheard•35m ago
The rate they are posting new articles on random subjects is also a pretty indicative of a content mill.

In 3 days they've covered machine learning, geometry, cryptography, file formats and directory services.

growingswe•34m ago
Thanks, will fix
windowshopping•43m ago
The part that eludes me is how you get from this to the capability to debug arbitrary coding problems. How does statistical inference become reasoning?

For a long time, it seemed the answer was it doesn't. But now, using Claude code daily, it seems it does.

malnourish•10m ago
I read through this entire article. There was some value in it, but I found it to be very "draw the rest of the owl". It read like introductions to conceptual elements or even proper segues had been edited out. That said, I appreciated the interactive components.

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149•Looky1173•5d ago•60 comments

Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

https://ghostty.org/docs
513•oli5679•9h ago•226 comments

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22•maurycyz•2h ago•8 comments

Microgpt

http://karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/microgpt/
1612•tambourine_man•20h ago•279 comments

Microgpt explained interactively

https://growingswe.com/blog/microgpt
116•growingswe•12h ago•8 comments

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151•ejholmes•4h ago•128 comments

Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude

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123•glth•7h ago•75 comments

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124•earthboundkid•2h ago•49 comments

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79•birdculture•3d ago•79 comments

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352•mschnell•12h ago•63 comments

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149•chromy•10h ago•38 comments

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25•doener•59m ago•0 comments

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107•ibobev•3d ago•46 comments

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202•vismit2000•14h ago•45 comments

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33•stevehiehn•6h ago•4 comments

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182•gradus_ad•6h ago•67 comments

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405•nickk81•10h ago•239 comments

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149•rmsaksida•7h ago•80 comments

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557•adilmoujahid•1d ago•192 comments

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116•joelsiks•12h ago•26 comments

AI is making junior devs useless

https://beabetterdev.com/2026/03/01/ai-is-making-junior-devs-useless/
125•beabetterdev•8h ago•221 comments