covid-sanity

Source

• Source kind: github-repository
• URL: https://github.com/karpathy/covid-sanity
• Discovery source: https://github.com/karpathy/covid-sanity
• License: MIT
• Distribution policy: public-summary-plus-license-aware-excerpts
• Public mirror status: partial excerpt
• Content hash: d95320edf636d9f7fa761d768887f5dcf31dfb7f0190c5f4b85e1fb648458630
• First seen: 2026-05-15
• Last changed: 2026-05-15

Classification

• Primary category: Research tooling and paper workflows
• Corpus source note: 2026-05-15-karpathy-public-corpus
• Project taxonomy: karpathy-project-taxonomy
• Idea map: karpathy-idea-map
• Topic hub: karpathy-public-work

Summary

covid-sanity This project organizes COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 preprints from medRxiv and bioRxiv. The raw data comes from the $1page,butthisprojectmakesthedatasearchable,sortable,etc.The"mostsimilar"searchusesanexemplarSVMtrainedontfidffeaturevectorsfromtheabstractsofthesepapers.Theprojectisrunningliveon$1. (I could not register covid-sanity.com because the term is “protected”) !$1 Since I can’t assess the quality of the similarity search I welcome any opinions on some of the hyperparameters. For instance, the parameter C in the SVM training and the size of the feature vector max fea…

What This Teaches

• How tooling can compress research reading, search, filtering, and sense-making.
• Useful for improving this wiki’s own ingest, ranking, and review workflows.

Why It Matters

This is high-priority for Vipin because it informs agent workflows, paper digestion, wiki maintenance, and autonomous research loops.

Repository Snapshot

• Full name: karpathy/covid-sanity
• Default branch: master
• HEAD: c8a2ab52b2c7ce04097ad7200de5785e796896cd
• Stars at crawl: 391
• Forks at crawl: 54
• File count: 14
• README path: README.md
• License path: LICENSE.md
• Created: 2020-03-30T01:20:10Z
• Updated: 2026-04-11T02:46:03Z
• Pushed: 2020-05-03T17:51:52Z

Top-Level Structure

• [root]: 9
• static: 4
• templates: 1

File Extension Profile

• .png: 3
• .py: 3
• .md: 2
• .txt: 2
• .css: 1
• .gitignore: 1
• .html: 1
• .js: 1

Tags / Release-Like Markers

• No git tags found in the shallow local clone.

Sample File Tree

• .gitignore
• banned.txt
• LICENSE.md
• README.md
• requirements.txt
• run.py
• serve.py
• static/favicon.png
• static/paper_list.js
• static/search.png
• static/style.css
• templates/index.html
• twitter_daemon.py
• ui.png

Public Handling Notes

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