simple-amt

Source

• Source kind: github-repository
• URL: https://github.com/karpathy/simple-amt
• Discovery source: https://github.com/karpathy/simple-amt
• License: MIT
• Distribution policy: public-summary-plus-license-aware-excerpts
• Public mirror status: partial excerpt
• Content hash: e54dd12fc95b852974478b968e50d25fbdb99d4301ab721d62385ae39730ab34
• First seen: 2026-05-15
• Last changed: 2026-05-15

Classification

• Primary category: Vision / multimodal / captioning
• 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

simple-amt ========== simple-amt is a microframework for working with $1 (AMT). It was designed with the following three principles in mind: - Abstract away the details of AMT to let you focus on your own task. - Place no restrictions on the structure of your AMT tasks. - Lightweight and easy to understand. Quick start guide Follow these steps to set up simple-amt and run a simple HIT on AMT. Check out the codebase and set up a virtualenv Configure your Amazon account To use AMT, you’ll need an Amazon AWS account. To interact with Amazon, simple-amt needs an access key and corresponding secret key for your Amazon…

What This Teaches

• How earlier vision and captioning systems connect representation learning with language outputs.
• Useful historical context for multimodal LLM research and evaluation.

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/simple-amt
• Default branch: master
• HEAD: 20989872d4f73feaf07b54abbfad965e6d8724e2
• Stars at crawl: 34
• Forks at crawl: 7
• File count: 27
• README path: README.md
• License path: LICENSE.txt
• Created: 2015-03-03T05:47:22Z
• Updated: 2026-03-15T20:57:43Z
• Pushed: 2015-03-03T05:49:53Z

Top-Level Structure

• [root]: 14
• examples: 8
• hit_templates: 3
• hit_properties: 2

File Extension Profile

• .py: 9
• .sh: 5
• .gitignore: 3
• .html: 3
• .txt: 3
• .json: 2
• .example: 1
• .md: 1

Tags / Release-Like Markers

• No git tags found in the shallow local clone.

Sample File Tree

• .gitignore
• approve_assignments.py
• config.json.example
• disable_hits.py
• examples/image_sentence/.gitignore
• examples/image_sentence/approve_assignments.sh
• examples/image_sentence/disable_hits.sh
• examples/image_sentence/example_input.txt
• examples/image_sentence/get_results.sh
• examples/image_sentence/launch_hits.sh
• examples/image_sentence/show_progress.sh
• examples/simple/.gitignore
• get_results.py
• hit_properties/image_sentence.json
• hit_properties/simple.json
• hit_templates/image_sentence.html
• hit_templates/simple.html
• hit_templates/simpleamt.html
• launch_hits.py
• LICENSE.txt
• README.md
• reject_assignments.py
• render_template.py
• requirements.txt
• show_account_balance.py
• show_hit_progress.py
• simpleamt.py

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