CharLM

[ToddThomson]

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Now a blog post: CharLM: The Night Mila First Spoke Shakespeare

This thread is where Mila first came alive — 13 January 2026, the night a from-scratch, 9.8M-parameter C++23 transformer (CharLM) trained on Shakespeare and produced its first coherent dialogue. I've written the story up properly on the blog; the link above is the canonical version.

Discussion welcome — here or on the post.