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wassname c9c53f8e7f feat(ml_debug): expand nanochat evidence, add lec4 diagnostics file
nanochat_deepwiki_llm_pretraining_2026.md rewritten with content from
dev/LOG.md and deepwiki sections 3/12/13:
- 14 labelled findings with direct quotes and empirical numbers
- Dataset >> architecture (27% gain, 5 failed attempts before ClimbMix)
- Scale-dependent HP sensitivity (d12 HPs hurt d20)
- Multi-axis validation (steps/wall-clock/FLOPs)
- Negative results: MoE/SwiGLU/MTP all failed at this scale
- MFU monitoring, batch size Bopt∝D^0.383, WD∝1/width² tables
- FP8 reality: 1.38x micro → 1.17x full → 5% capability-matched
- Python GC 500ms overhead, torch.compile recompile gotcha

karpathy_nn_zero_to_hero_lec4_diagnostics.md: new evidence file
- Activation saturation check (tanh >0.97)
- Gradient distribution check per-layer
- Grad:data ratio (target ~1e-3)
- Update-to-data ratio tracker with full plotting code
- Incremental improvement log from notebook
2026-03-10 05:38:33 +08:00
wassname ced4edc200 feat(ml_debug): add Karpathy recipe + nanochat evidence, update-ratio diagnostic
Add 3 new evidence files from modern open-source sources:
- karpathy_recipe_training_nn_2019.md: Karpathy's training recipe blog post
- nanochat_deepwiki_llm_pretraining_2026.md: 320+ HP sweeps for GPT-2-scale pretraining
- sanh_simple_considerations_hf_2021.md: HuggingFace NLP debugging notes

Add update-to-data ratio diagnostic to refs/diagnostics.md (target ~1e-3).
Add LLM pretraining gap note to SKILL.md intro linking the new sources.
Add tanh saturation % to logging checklist.
2026-03-10 05:32:37 +08:00