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31 pointsby akhalillitoday at 7:05 PM9 commentsview on HN

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bonoboTPtoday at 7:36 PM

Not bad, but Claude is not quite good yet for writing these explainers. We should try again in a few months with newer models.

4b11b4today at 7:48 PM

Can tell it's garbage just from the first figures caption

Ask12jtoday at 7:43 PM

Lol, a yaml file for function signatures of which to generate a giant switch statement.

The "compiler" dynamo part is also a hack that calls real compilers like gcc and Triton.

It is a big bowl of spaghetti.

imperio59today at 8:39 PM

If you like these sort of AI generated explainers this one is pretty good too: https://www.longformexplainers.com/llm-pretraining

oliver236today at 8:06 PM

can someone give recommendations of other pytorch explanations like this one?

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hnv9j3vudytoday at 8:09 PM

Solid write-up, thanks again