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Re:NanoGPT by cs702 on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @08:16AM (#34338025)
Thank you for sharing your anecdata. In my experience, the number of clones per month is much higher at first, and then decays gradually until it settles into a stable run-rate, so it's likely that you've had more than 100 x 12 x 5 clones over those five years -- i.e., between one and two orders of magnitude the number of stars, 300.
Re:NanoGPT by jefftk on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @09:15AM (#34338692)
Another data point: icdiff is 13y old with 4k stars and 200 unique clones in the past month.

(This is a tool that most people install and run without any interaction with GitHub, since it is in package managers)