Phil 10.13.2025

Completely forgot about the symphony yesterday. Need to put the rest on the Apple calendar so at least my wrist will know about them

Introducing nanochat: The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy.

  • We wish to train the best ChatGPT that $100 can buy, which we call a “speedrun”. Reference the script speedrun.sh, which is designed to just run right away on a blank box start to end. However, in this post I will step through it part by part so that I can comment in detail on all sections of it. We first have to make sure the new&hot uv project manager is installed. Install uv, create a new virtual environment in .venv, get all the dependencies, and activate the environment so that when we type python we’re using the virtual env python, not the system python

Standardized Project Gutenberg Corpus

SBIRs

  • Trained up a model on a 10×10 grid with 100 walks of 10 elements each. Even so, the grid is visible in the trained model. Next step will be to up the number of walks while holding everything else constant:
  • Improved the rendering so that I can get all the orthogonal axis drawn. Wrote a very detailed prompt with example data and Gemini created a solid method on the first shot. The whole interaction can be seen here.