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Larry Dial

AWS engineer whose post announced the 122.2-second NanoGPT speedrun record and observed that the rate of records was itself increasing.

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Welcome to December 25, 2025 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Larry Dial is an engineer at Amazon Web Services who posts NanoGPT speedrun records. His posts carry the corpus’s 127.7-second and 122.2-second entries, and his remark that “for some reason the rate of records is increasing” is the observation the newsletter uses to file the speedrun under recursive self-improvement.

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Larry Dial, engineer at Amazon Web Services

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Larry Dial
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