karpathy.github.io

Source

• Source kind: github-repository
• URL: https://github.com/karpathy/karpathy.github.io
• Discovery source: https://github.com/karpathy/karpathy.github.io
• License: NOASSERTION
• Distribution policy: public-summary-local-archive-only
• Public mirror status: summary-only
• Content hash: 3609c8a8ea9876493b16031bdcc5080fb036ce9453d03825cdf4c3074195a222
• First seen: 2026-05-15
• Last changed: 2026-05-15

Classification

• Primary category: LLM training and inference systems
• 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

My blog This is my blog, uses $1. I was tired of bloated, slow Wordpress that locked up all my content.

What This Teaches

• How modern LLM training or inference can be reduced to compact, inspectable systems.
• Useful as a reference for building mental models of GPT-style models without hiding behind framework scale.

Why It Matters

This is high-priority for Vipin because it connects directly to LLM systems, evaluation, and research implementation judgment.

Repository Snapshot

• Full name: karpathy/karpathy.github.io
• Default branch: master
• HEAD: 717b06d57b7834e27ca4bd55bda0a79d16dddeca
• Stars at crawl: 1486
• Forks at crawl: 294
• File count: 157
• README path: Readme.md
• License path: “
• Created: 2014-07-03T01:24:33Z
• Updated: 2026-05-15T14:47:01Z
• Pushed: 2026-04-10T23:50:09Z

Top-Level Structure

• assets: 120
• _posts: 23
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• .gitignore: 1
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• No git tags found in the shallow local clone.

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• _posts/2026-02-12-microgpt.markdown
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