scholaroctopus

Source

• Source kind: github-repository
• URL: https://github.com/karpathy/scholaroctopus
• Discovery source: https://github.com/karpathy/scholaroctopus
• License: NOASSERTION
• Distribution policy: public-summary-local-archive-only
• Public mirror status: summary-only
• Content hash: 77146ca0c52b378f0d3a8a669f07332e09aa43c55bacbd16d7efc5cd0fbf0907
• 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

ScholarOctopus ScholarOctopus is a set of tools/pages that help explore academic literature. Currently, ScholarOctopus is a collection of pointers to 7000 papers from 34 Computer Vision and Machine Learning conferences (CVPR/ICCV/NIPS/ICML/ECCV/BMVC) between 2006 and 2014. Visualizations The first visualization I wrote for this data is to compute bigram tfidf vectors and embed them with t-SNE in 2D. The visualization can be found $1. The page contains a few more links to stats and some pointer data. If you’d like to write your own visualization “view” of the data, I warmly welcome additional contributions, likely…

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/scholaroctopus
• Default branch: master
• HEAD: dde802a7aa747433c779eb09e800ac120a19c726
• Stars at crawl: 80
• Forks at crawl: 17
• File count: 6
• README path: README.md
• License path: “
• Created: 2014-08-09T20:54:23Z
• Updated: 2026-05-12T03:58:28Z
• Pushed: 2014-08-11T22:20:24Z

Top-Level Structure

• render: 5
• [root]: 1

File Extension Profile

• .js: 2
• .html: 1
• .json: 1
• .md: 1
• .svg: 1

Tags / Release-Like Markers

• No git tags found in the shallow local clone.

Sample File Tree

• README.md
• render/d3.min.js
• render/data5.json
• render/icon.svg
• render/index.html
• render/jquery-1.8.3.min.js

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