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Public story · 2026-02-12 · source-backed
A complete GPT implementation (training + inference) in 243 lines — only imports are os, math, random, argparse. Karpathy: "This is the full algorithmic content. Everything else is just for efficiency. I cannot simplify this any further." A landmark educational artifact that strips the mystique from LLMs.
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