@ekzhang1: Homage to karpathy joining anthropic: made an in-browser (webgpu) version of the famous char-rnn "Unreasonable effectiv…
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Created an in-browser WebGPU version of the classic char-rnn demo training on Shakespeare, paying homage to Karpathy joining Anthropic.
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Homage to karpathy joining anthropic: made an in-browser (webgpu) version of the famous char-rnn “Unreasonable effectiveness of RNNs” demo, training on shakespeare :)
ahh it’s just as cool as when I was a student playing with keras in 2016 https://t.co/zittY9bBnv
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