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Re:Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transfo... by naasking on Sunday January 18, 2026 @09:13PM (#46674334)
The linked paper tested nanoGPT with this new transformer:

https://www.techrxiv.org/users/685780/articles/1375955-topol...

Re:Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transfo... by tuned on Monday January 19, 2026 @01:14AM (#46675557)
thanks for linking.

Yes the paper compares the new architecture (that is also a fork of my implementation of nanoGPT) with Karpathy's nanoGPT. There are also links to the code and bench used.

Re:Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transfo... by Herring on Monday January 19, 2026 @01:07PM (#46682400)
Note I didn't say Karpathy's nanoGPT, I said use the speedrun.

Transformers are universal function approximators. When well-tuned, they often start to approximate other innovations. Not always, thank god, but often enough that you have to be careful.

Re:Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transfo... by tuned on Thursday January 22, 2026 @04:28AM (#46716976)
ok, thanks. I am taking it slow then