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The NanoGPT speedrun record falls to 127.7 seconds

development2025-12-21

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A new NanoGPT speedrun record of 127.7 seconds showed basic competence collapsing into a computational rounding error.

Reported metric: 127.7 s

Reporting date: 2025-12-21 (not necessarily the event date)

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The NanoGPT speedrun record falls to 127.7 seconds
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Reporting date: 2025-12-21
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2025-12-21-nanogpt-speedrun-127s
Claim: A new NanoGPT speedrun record of 127.7 seconds showed basic competence collapsing into a computational rounding error.
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- Welcome to December 21, 2025 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-december-21-2025
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