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.

karpathy

"""
The most atomic way to train and run inference for a GPT in pure, dependency-free Python.
This file is the complete algorithm.
Everything else is just efficiency.

@karpathy
"""

import os       # os.path.exists
import math     # math.log, math.exp

sayakpaul

from diffusers import FluxPipeline, AutoencoderKL
from diffusers.image_processor import VaeImageProcessor
from transformers import T5EncoderModel, T5TokenizerFast, CLIPTokenizer, CLIPTextModel
import torch
import gc


def flush():
    gc.collect()
    torch.cuda.empty_cache()

karpathy

"""
stable diffusion dreaming
creates hypnotic moving videos by smoothly walking randomly through the sample space

example way to run this script:

$ python stablediffusionwalk.py --prompt "blueberry spaghetti" --name blueberry

to stitch together the images, e.g.:
$ ffmpeg -r 10 -f image2 -s 512x512 -i blueberry/frame%06d.jpg -vcodec libx264 -crf 10 -pix_fmt yuv420p blueberry.mp4