politelemon 2 hours 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 an hour ago

    You are absolutely right. The whole post reads like AI generated.

    • jsheard 41 minutes 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.

    • re an hour 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.

malnourish 16 minutes 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.

windowshopping an hour 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.