karpathy

LLM Wiki

A pattern for building personal knowledge bases using LLMs.

This is an idea file, it is designed to be copy pasted to your own LLM Agent (e.g. OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode / Pi, or etc.). Its goal is to communicate the high level idea, but your agent will build out the specifics in collaboration with you.

The core idea

Most people's experience with LLMs and documents looks like RAG: you upload a collection of files, the LLM retrieves relevant chunks at query time, and generates an answer. This works, but the LLM is rediscovering knowledge from scratch on every question. There's no accumulation. Ask a subtle question that requires synthesizing five documents, and the LLM has to find and piece together the relevant fragments every time. Nothing is built up. NotebookLM, ChatGPT file uploads, and most RAG systems work this way.

vasanthk

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

• User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
  • Who is going to use it?
  • How are they going to use it?

acolyer

Internet Scale Services Checklist

A checklist for designing and developing internet scale services, inspired by James Hamilton's 2007 paper "On Desgining and Deploying Internet-Scale Services."

• http://mvdirona.com/jrh/talksandpapers/jamesrh_lisa.pdf

Basic tenets

• Does the design expect failures to happen regularly and handle them gracefully?
• Have we kept things as simple as possible?

denji

Moved to git-repository: https://github.com/denji/awesome-http-benchmark

Tools

Located in alphabetical order (not prefer)

• ab – slow and single threaded, written in C
• apib – most of the features of ApacheBench (ab), also designed as a more modern replacement, written in C
• autocannon – fast HTTP/1.1 benchmarking tool written in Node.js
• baloo – Expressive end-to-end HTTP API testing made easy, written in Go (golang)

DotNetNerd

class Program
  {
		static void Main(string[] args)
		{
			var grabby = new Grabby();

			string output = grabby.Grab("http://www.dotnetnerd.dk/cv");
			Console.WriteLine(output); 
			File.WriteAllText("c:\\test.html", output);
		}

maximn

tips: {
  // ...
	renderer: function (storeItem, item) {
		if (/* want to hide condition ... */) {
			this.update();
			return;
		}
    // ... the code for regualr tips we want to show
	},
	listeners:

dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

revolunet

// to capture ALL events use:
Ext.util.Observable.prototype.fireEvent = 
    Ext.util.Observable.prototype.fireEvent.createInterceptor(function() {
        console.log(this.name);
        console.log(arguments);
        return true;
});
 
// to capture events for a particular component:
Ext.util.Observable.capture(