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karpathy / microgpt.py
Last active February 24, 2026 08:47
microgpt
"""
The most atomic way to train and run inference for a GPT in pure, dependency-free Python.
This file is the complete algorithm.
Everything else is just efficiency.
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"""
import os # os.path.exists
import math # math.log, math.exp
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dblalock / ML Meta-analyses.md
Last active November 28, 2023 14:50
List of meta-analyses / independent benchmarking of machine learning and data mining papers
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nicowilliams / fork-is-evil-vfork-is-good-afork-would-be-better.md
Last active December 2, 2025 05:20
fork() is evil; vfork() is goodness; afork() would be better; clone() is stupid

I recently happened upon a very interesting implementation of popen() (different API, same idea) called popen-noshell using clone(2), and so I opened an issue requesting use of vfork(2) or posix_spawn() for portability. It turns out that on Linux there's an important advantage to using clone(2). I think I should capture the things I wrote there in a better place. A gist, a blog, whatever.

This is not a paper. I assume reader familiarity with fork() in particular and Unix in general, though, of course, I link to relevant wiki pages, so if the unfamiliar reader is willing to go down the rabbit hole, they should be able to come ou