I liked this not because it's a good story. It is, but that's beside the point. I liked this because it's my story. Not literally so, but the shape of it is. He's struck a nerve at the heart of growing up eager and curious and seeing a computer as a pathway to your dreams.

Cool! I’ve been working on adding the same thing for Apple Silicon within my general “make autoresearch a serious tool” project here: https://github.com/Entrpi/autoresearch-everywhere

This is very much in line with what I found fascinating about optimizing microgpt for speed (0). Or rather, what I was able to do with it after doing so. It's so small and so fast to train, you can really dig deep into the optimization landscape. I've spent all my free time this past week digging into it.

0: https://entrpi.github.io/eemicrogpt/ (The writeup is from a few days ago, and I'm still running experiments before I do a big rewrite. Slowrun is good food for thought.)

Topical. My hobby project this week (0) has been hyper-optimizing microgpt for M5's CPU cores (and comparing to MLX performance). Wonder if anything changes under the regime I've been chasing with these new chips.

0: https://entrpi.github.io/eemicrogpt/