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I built a tiny transformer from scratch to invent dinosaur names. Would love feedback on the demo 🦖

Hey everyone! I built DinoGPT , a small PyTorch transformer that takes the beginning of a name and generates the rest, one letter at a time. It has about 53k parameters , trained on 1,535 dinosaur names . I wrote the attention mechanism myself to understand how transformers work and added a Streaml…

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  1. 2026-10-24 04:42 · r/learnmachinelearning
    I built a tiny transformer from scratch to invent dinosaur names. Would love feedback on the demo 🦖
  2. 2026-10-24 04:39 · r/deeplearning
    I built a tiny transformer from scratch to invent dinosaur names. Would love feedback on the demo 🦖

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