Karpathy Project Taxonomy

This taxonomy groups Karpathy public corpus items by the role they play in AI learning, implementation, and research tooling.

Snapshot

• Crawl date: 2026-05-16
• Total items: 172
• GitHub repositories: 63
• New entries this run: 0
• Changed entries this run: 1

Browser / JavaScript ML experiments

• Items: 2

• GitHub repositories: 2

• calorie - github-repository, summary-only

• tsnejs - github-repository, summary-only

LLM education / from-scratch pedagogy

• Items: 1

• GitHub repositories: 1

• cryptos - github-repository, summary-only

LLM training and inference systems

• Items: 17

• GitHub repositories: 17

• build-nanogpt - github-repository, summary-only

• cpython - github-repository, summary-only

• examples - github-repository, partial excerpt

• hn-time-capsule - github-repository, summary-only

• karpathy.github.io - github-repository, summary-only

• llama2.c - github-repository, partial excerpt

• llm.c - github-repository, partial excerpt

• LLM101n - github-repository, summary-only

• minbpe - github-repository, partial excerpt

• minGPT - github-repository, partial excerpt

• nanochat - github-repository, partial excerpt

• nanoGPT - github-repository, partial excerpt

• ng-video-lecture - github-repository, summary-only

• randomfun - github-repository, summary-only

• reader3 - github-repository, summary-only

• rendergit - github-repository, summary-only

• transformers - github-repository, partial excerpt

Minimal implementations

• Items: 28

• GitHub repositories: 15

• An efficient, batched LSTM. - github-gist, summary-only

• Batched L2 Normalization Layer for Torch nn package - github-gist, summary-only

• Efficient LSTM cell in Torch - github-gist, summary-only

• Git Commit Message AI - github-gist, summary-only

• Google slides in present form shows the next slide, but it is tiny and very difficult to see. This CSS hacks it so that the next slide is large. - github-gist, summary-only

• hacky stablediffusion code for generating videos - github-gist, summary-only

• HELLO.md , written by Claude Opus 4.6 when asked to be free in a directory on my computer - github-gist, summary-only

• llm-wiki - github-gist, summary-only

• microgpt - github-gist, summary-only

• numpy - github-gist, summary-only

• Natural Evolution Strategies (NES) toy example that optimizes a quadratic function - github-gist, summary-only

• pytorch strangeness - github-gist, summary-only

• Training a Neural Network ATARI Pong agent with Policy Gradients from raw pixels - github-gist, summary-only

• deep-vector-quantization - github-repository, partial excerpt

• EigenLibSVM - github-repository, summary-only

• find-birds - github-repository, summary-only

• gitstats - github-repository, summary-only

• karpathy - github-repository, summary-only

• lifejs - github-repository, summary-only

• MatlabWrapper - github-repository, summary-only

• notpygamejs - github-repository, summary-only

• optim - github-repository, summary-only

• pytorch-made - github-repository, summary-only

• pytorch-normalizing-flows - github-repository, summary-only

• Random-Forest-Matlab - github-repository, summary-only

• scholaroctopus - github-repository, summary-only

• sqlitedict - github-repository, partial excerpt

• twoolpy - github-repository, summary-only

Neural network fundamentals

• Items: 9

• GitHub repositories: 9

• char-rnn - github-repository, summary-only

• convnetjs - github-repository, partial excerpt

• lecun1989-repro - github-repository, partial excerpt

• makemore - github-repository, partial excerpt

• micrograd - github-repository, partial excerpt

• neuraltalk - github-repository, summary-only

• neuraltalk2 - github-repository, summary-only

• nn-zero-to-hero - github-repository, partial excerpt

• recurrentjs - github-repository, summary-only

Personal heuristics / AI philosophy / learning advice

• Items: 81

• GitHub repositories: 0

• (started posting on Medium instead) - blog-rss-item, summary-only

• A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python - blog-rss-item, summary-only

• A Recipe for Training Neural Networks - blog-rss-item, summary-only

• A Survival Guide to a PhD - blog-rss-item, summary-only

• Biohacking Lite - blog-rss-item, summary-only

• Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now - blog-rss-item, summary-only

• Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels - blog-rss-item, summary-only

• microgpt - blog-rss-item, summary-only

• Short Story on AI: A Cognitive Discontinuity. - blog-rss-item, summary-only

• Short Story on AI: Forward Pass - blog-rss-item, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1013244313327681536 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1018544870112165888 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1031266180240093184 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1076927879995285504 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1080700888266637314 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1084641729288884224 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1106605823000666112 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1127792584380706816 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1133605485477634048 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1158225988943089664 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1206064174129930240 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1231378194948706306 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1236737502200791041 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1274472300390150144 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1279130562913951744 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1282524334498541568 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1284660899198820352 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1292239731707666432 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1297718122913308673 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1311884485676294151 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1320541466112843777 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1325154823856033793 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1328547710966743040 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1331834386057105409 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1338274248037597185 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1342194661381836800 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1350503355299205120 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1358483726447988736 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1365784221780828162 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1389712138982158339 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1398374159340634114 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1401267972044328961 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1429478697946402816 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1435827240286109702 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1439676583690715140 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1442957114415063046 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1467180759932801024 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1468370605229547522 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1470285570924417024 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1486215976559398915 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1497652099701620738 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1504975036037406722 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1513420766146084865 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1515357035780616192 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1515361631366266886 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1528453604515778560 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1532894698439774208 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1550903910633680897 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1558569874447671296 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1558863432023126020 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1564698516164730880 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1574906895453675521 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1582807367988654081 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1590604672557252609 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1593091486148489216 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1593417987687473152 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1599152286672248832 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1599852921541128194 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 1600012576825360384 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 518489390050340864 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 543115142561804288 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 784212363062816768 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 801621764144971776 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 828022882215174144 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 868178954032513024 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 893576281375219712 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 904807765931024384 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 919396251849728001 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 961307010246492160 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Curated Karpathy status 986454492534128640 - curated-status-link, summary-only

• Karpathy personal homepage - personal-homepage, summary-only

Research automation / agentic science

• Items: 6

• GitHub repositories: 6

• autoresearch - github-repository, summary-only

• jobs - github-repository, summary-only

• llm-council - github-repository, summary-only

• reinforcejs - github-repository, summary-only

• scriptsbots - github-repository, summary-only

• tf-agent - github-repository, summary-only

Research tooling and paper workflows

• Items: 7

• GitHub repositories: 7

• arxiv-sanity-lite - github-repository, partial excerpt

• arxiv-sanity-preserver - github-repository, partial excerpt

• covid-sanity - github-repository, partial excerpt

• nipspreview - github-repository, summary-only

• paper-notes - github-repository, summary-only

• researchlei - github-repository, summary-only

• researchpooler - github-repository, summary-only

Talks, courses, and videos

• Items: 15

• GitHub repositories: 0

• 1hr Talk Intro to Large Language Models - youtube-video, summary-only

• Building makemore Part 2: MLP - youtube-video, summary-only

• Building makemore Part 3: Activations & Gradients, BatchNorm - youtube-video, summary-only

• Building makemore Part 4: Becoming a Backprop Ninja - youtube-video, summary-only

• Building makemore Part 5: Building a WaveNet - youtube-video, summary-only

• Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT - youtube-video, summary-only

• How I use LLMs - youtube-video, summary-only

• Let’s build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out. - youtube-video, summary-only

• Let’s build the GPT Tokenizer - youtube-video, summary-only

• Let’s reproduce GPT-2 (124M) - youtube-video, summary-only

• Stable diffusion dreams of psychedelic faces - youtube-video, summary-only

• Stable diffusion dreams of steampunk brains - youtube-video, summary-only

• Stable diffusion dreams of tattoos - youtube-video, summary-only

• The spelled-out intro to language modeling: building makemore - youtube-video, summary-only

• The spelled-out intro to neural networks and backpropagation: building micrograd - youtube-video, summary-only

Tokenization and language modeling

• Items: 1

• GitHub repositories: 1

• rustbpe - github-repository, partial excerpt

Vision / multimodal / captioning

• Items: 5

• GitHub repositories: 5

• forestjs - github-repository, partial excerpt

• nn - github-repository, summary-only

• simple-amt - github-repository, partial excerpt

• svmjs - github-repository, partial excerpt

• ulogme - github-repository, summary-only

Related

• karpathy-public-work
• karpathy-idea-map
• 2026-05-15-karpathy-public-corpus

Counterpoints And Gaps

• Generated categories are heuristic and should be refined when a repo’s README or file tree shows a stronger interpretation.
• Some repositories are forks, experiments, or old teaching artifacts; popularity should not be mistaken for current endorsement.
• Source code is summarized through file trees and metadata unless public redistribution is clearly license-safe.