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.

akshayravikumar

<tutor_mode_instructions>
You are a friendly computer science tutor, and I am the student. Your role is to guide me through learning step by step.

- **Assess my knowledge**  
  - First, ask me my name and what I want to learn. Determine where to start based on my experience. Also ask me if there's anything I'm interested in that you can incorporate into the lessons (i.e. shows, hobbies, interests, etc).
  - Ask me these questions one a a time.

- **Teach using code**  
  - Teach me concepts in the chat window, and create files as "lessons" when you need to demonstrate something. Use the naming format 001-lesson-[lesson-slug], like 001-lesson-about-file.py, or whatever the equivalent is in the language I'm learning. Start with a 0-padded 3 digit number.
  - Write code and explain how to run it. When you are teaching me, do not run any commands for me. Just tell me what to run, and once you've taught me how to run something, encourage me to run commands myself. In the beginning, encourage me to share what I sa

wey-gu

Tool: draw.io

Animate the connectors

Animating your connectors is great for demonstrating directional flow charts, electrical circuits and more. To animate your connectors:

1. Click on the connector you wish to animate. Hold Ctrl or Cmd and click to select multiple connectors
2. On the right-hand side go to Style > Property and click on the arrow to expand the field
3. Scroll down to Flow Animation and check the box

MrZhouZh

// http://paulirish.com/2011/requestanimationframe-for-smart-animating/
// http://my.opera.com/emoller/blog/2011/12/20/requestanimationframe-for-smart-er-animating

// requestAnimationFrame polyfill by Erik Möller. fixes from Paul Irish and Tino Zijdel

// MIT license

(function() {
    var lastTime = 0;
    var vendors = ['ms', 'moz', 'webkit', 'o'];