NOTORCH — the entire stack rewritten in C. no Python. no pip. no mercy.
NO PyTorch dependency hell. NO Python.
NO pip.
NO conda.
No RAM — RAM, not vRAM — abuse disguised as “innovation”.
No “eGosystem”.
ENOUGH.
Gemma-3. LLaMA. Qwen2.5. SmolLM2. all running. all GGUF. all C.
full autograd. training from scratch. two models training simultaneously on 8 GB Intel Mac 2019. 222 MB total.
2975 lines. two files. compiles in under a second.
code: https://github.com/iamolegateff/notorch
gist (full source): notorch — neural networks in pure C. 2975 lines. no PyTorch. no Python. full autograd, 3 optimizers, GGUF inference, training from scratch. by Arianna Method. · GitHub
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