Scaling Karpathy's Autoresearch: What Happens When the Agent Gets a GPU Cluster

kept by eddie mar 20

Giving Karpathy's autoresearch agent access to 16 GPUs enabled 9x faster optimization by running experiments in parallel and enabling factorial grid searches.

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