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Last active June 30, 2026 11:21
makemore — Your First Tiny Language Model From Scratch: a bigram neural net (one-hot → @W → softmax → NLL) that generates name-like text, trained with the same backward pass from Chapter 2. Chapter 3 of ml-from-zero. For ECE/CS grads new to ML.

makemore — Your First Tiny Language Model From Scratch. A bigram neural net that generates name-like text: one-hot → @W → softmax → negative-log-likelihood, trained with the same backward pass from Chapter 2. Chapter 3 of ml-from-zero. For ECE/CS grads new to ML.

🔤 makemore — Your First Tiny Language Model

From a Pile of Names to a Net That Invents New Ones — One Character at a Time

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