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Tricycle

Autograd to GPT-2 completely from scratch

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What it is

Autograd to GPT-2 completely from scratch

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

As a chronic premature optimizer my first reaction was, "Is this even possible in vanilla python???" Obviously it's possible, but can you train an LLM before the heat death of…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 9:28:18 AM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by week6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2024-02-15 21:01:25 UTC to 2024-07-17 12:15:06 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

01232024-02-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsFeb 122024-02-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-02-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 292024-05-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-05-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-05-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-05-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-06-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-06-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-06-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-06-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-07-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-07-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-07-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-07-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-07-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 3 submissions, 0 commentsJul 15

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Feb 122024-02-12 00:00:00 UTC2024-02-19 00:00:00 UTC101
Feb 192024-02-19 00:00:00 UTC2024-02-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 262024-02-26 00:00:00 UTC2024-03-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 42024-03-04 00:00:00 UTC2024-03-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 112024-03-11 00:00:00 UTC2024-03-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 182024-03-18 00:00:00 UTC2024-03-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 252024-03-25 00:00:00 UTC2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 12024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-04-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 82024-04-08 00:00:00 UTC2024-04-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 152024-04-15 00:00:00 UTC2024-04-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 222024-04-22 00:00:00 UTC2024-04-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 292024-04-29 00:00:00 UTC2024-05-06 00:00:00 UTC101
May 62024-05-06 00:00:00 UTC2024-05-13 00:00:00 UTC000
May 132024-05-13 00:00:00 UTC2024-05-20 00:00:00 UTC000
May 202024-05-20 00:00:00 UTC2024-05-27 00:00:00 UTC000
May 272024-05-27 00:00:00 UTC2024-06-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 32024-06-03 00:00:00 UTC2024-06-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 102024-06-10 00:00:00 UTC2024-06-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 172024-06-17 00:00:00 UTC2024-06-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 242024-06-24 00:00:00 UTC2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 12024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-07-08 00:00:00 UTC101
Jul 82024-07-08 00:00:00 UTC2024-07-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 152024-07-15 00:00:00 UTC2024-07-22 00:00:00 UTC330

What Hacker News says

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netwrt·May 2, 2024
Location: London Remote: Happy to work fully in person although hybrid is preferred. Willing to relocate: For the right role Technologies: Machine Learning (Computer Vision, NLP etc), Data Science, Python, Kubernetes Resume: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bclarkson-code/bclarkson-c... Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benedict-clarkson-779b43154/ Email: bclarkson-code@proton.me I'm a Senior Machine Learning Engineer looking for my next challenge. I have a strong background in Deep Learning: I built a state of the art CV model for cancer detection and I'm the author of the Tricycle (https://github.com/bclarkson-code/Tricycle) deep learning framework. I built it from scratch (nothing but python, numpy and a bit of cuda) and recently used it to successfully build and train a small language model. I'm looking for an AI Engineer role in
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