HISTORY! EXTRATERRESTRIAL SHAKESPEARE SLM COOL SOLAR SPACE-BOTS IN SPACE

SHAKESPEARE IN SPACE!

SOLAR, SLM, SPECIFIC, NANOGPT AI ORBITING OUR EARTH. YESTERDAY.

Here is that podcast Andrej Karpathy with Dwarkesh Patel 10.17.25

WANT TO TRY SHAKESPEARE NANO.GPT? You can’t. It isn’t publicly available.

But here are INSTRUCTIONS to replicate here on earth the same model and function:

1. Clone the Repo: git clone https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT
   

2. Prep Data: In nanoGPT/data/shakespeare/, run python prepare.py (downloads ~1MB Tiny Shakespeare corpus; for full works, grab from Project Gutenberg and concatenate into input.txt).
   

3. Train: Run python train.py --dataset=shakespeare --n_layer=4 --n_head=4 --n_embd=128 --block_size=256 --batch_size=16 --device=cuda (adjust for your GPU; trains in ~1-2 hours on an A100/H100 equivalent).
   

4. Generate Text: python sample.py --out_dir=out-shakespeare --device=cuda (outputs lines like “ROMEO: Alas, fair sun, thou art a wretched thing...”).

For faster results, use the pre-trained Shakespeare checkpoint from the repo. If you lack hardware, rent a cloud GPU on RunPod or Lambda Labs (~$0.50/hour for an A40).