find-birds

Source

• Source kind: github-repository
• URL: https://github.com/karpathy/find-birds
• Discovery source: https://github.com/karpathy/find-birds
• License: NOASSERTION
• Distribution policy: public-summary-local-archive-only
• Public mirror status: summary-only
• Content hash: 1a0e0d461673b8258bf0b9b1057e0079914faa29e686544a6d90b935f3b10618
• First seen: 2026-05-15
• Last changed: 2026-05-15

Classification

• Primary category: Minimal implementations
• 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

find-birds !$1ThegoalistofindpeopleonTwitter("birds",haha)whoyoushouldfollow.Thesourceofsignalisthatthepeopleyoufollowfollowotherpeopleyouprobablyshouldfollowbutsofardonot.installationThecodebaseusestweepylibrarytointeractwiththeTwitterAPI:pipinstall-rrequirements.txtYouwillhavetosetupoauthaccesstoTwitterAPI.Follow$1 to set that up. You’ll then want to enter your consumer key, consumer secret, access token, access token secret as 4 lines in a file twitter.txt in the root directory of this project. usage The typical usage for me (username “karpathy”…

What This Teaches

• How a complex idea can be compressed into a minimal but working implementation.
• Useful as a reference style for serious small systems rather than decorative demos.

Why It Matters

This matters as part of Karpathy’s broader pattern: compress hard technical systems into readable, inspectable, working artifacts.

Repository Snapshot

• Full name: karpathy/find-birds
• Default branch: master
• HEAD: f99b57a918f9fe0ead7f1f69b763d0b4385682cc
• Stars at crawl: 362
• Forks at crawl: 25
• File count: 7
• README path: README.md
• License path: “
• Created: 2018-03-31T22:59:38Z
• Updated: 2026-04-18T05:52:26Z
• Pushed: 2018-04-01T15:32:33Z

Top-Level Structure

• [root]: 7

File Extension Profile

• .py: 3
• .html: 1
• .md: 1
• .png: 1
• .txt: 1

Tags / Release-Like Markers

• No git tags found in the shallow local clone.

Sample File Tree

• common.py
• fetch.py
• README.md
• report.py
• report_template.html
• requirements.txt
• ui.png

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