
Karpathy's Autoresearch Runs 100 ML Experiments Overnight
Andrej Karpathy open-sourced autoresearch, a 630-line MIT-licensed Python tool that runs up to 100 autonomous ML experiments overnight on a single GPU, no PhD required.
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Andrej Karpathy open-sourced autoresearch, a 630-line MIT-licensed Python tool that runs up to 100 autonomous ML experiments overnight on a single GPU, no PhD required.

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