nipspreview

Source

• Source kind: github-repository
• URL: https://github.com/karpathy/nipspreview
• Discovery source: https://github.com/karpathy/nipspreview
• License: NOASSERTION
• Distribution policy: public-summary-local-archive-only
• Public mirror status: summary-only
• Content hash: 6d72d9c2639eb410174463cd0c6573c7a8dfdf9b5481fbe103bea54eef6debe8
• 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

NIPS papers pretty html This is a set of scripts for creating nice preview page (see here: http://cs.stanford.edu/~karpathy/nipspreview/ ) for all papers published at NIPS. I hope these scripts can be useful to others to create similar pages for other conferences. They show how one can manipulate PDFs, extract image thumbnails, analyze word frequencies, do AJAX requests to load abstracts, etc. Installation 0. Clone this repository git clone https://github.com/karpathy/nipspreview.git 1. Download nips25offline from http://books.nips.cc/nips25.html and move it into the folder created in step 0 2. Make sure you have…

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/nipspreview
• Default branch: master
• HEAD: 3d4bb82dc6fb94b0d99ccdcee1629f4a401b44f0
• Stars at crawl: 187
• Forks at crawl: 65
• File count: 15
• README path: Readme.md
• License path: “
• Created: 2012-11-24T19:36:08Z
• Updated: 2026-05-10T11:17:41Z
• Pushed: 2017-06-21T18:25:08Z

Top-Level Structure

• [root]: 13
• abstracts: 1
• thumbs: 1

File Extension Profile

• .py: 9
• .txt: 3
• .html: 1
• .js: 1
• .md: 1

Tags / Release-Like Markers

• No git tags found in the shallow local clone.

Sample File Tree

• abstracts/dummy.txt
• generatenice.py
• generatenicelda.py
• getabstracts.py
• jquery-1.8.3.min.js
• lda.py
• makecorpus.py
• nipsnice_template.html
• pdftothumbs.py
• pdftowordcloud.py
• Readme.md
• scrape.py
• stopwords.txt
• thumbs/dummy.txt
• vocabulary.py

Public Handling Notes

• EXTRACTED: This page records public metadata and a source-grounded summary.
• INFERRED: Full local preservation, when available, is for private/local use unless a license or explicit source policy makes public redistribution safe.
• Do not treat this page as permission to republish unlicensed source text or code wholesale.