Rami's Readings #127 - Karpathy on AGI & NanoChat

Welcome to Rami’s Readings #127 - a weekly digest of interesting articles, papers, videos, and X threads from my various sources across the Internet. Expect a list of reads covering AI, technology, business, culture, fashion, travel, and more. Learn about what I do at ramisayar.com/about.

👋🏼 Welcome New Subscribers

Hello! A hearty thank you for subscribing to Rami’s Readings! There are quite a few new subscribers this week, thanks to recommendations from The AI Ethics Brief, Life in Conversation with Salmi, Product Byte, and The VC Corner. I am thrilled to have you on board! In this newsletter, I curate the best papers, tweets, and articles I have read during the week focusing on LLMs, AI, economics, business, and technology news. You can learn more about me on my website.

🤖 AI Reads

Must Watch from Andrej Karpathy

Notes: Read the X post and the HN comments. Andrej’s contribution to AI education is unmatched, see NanoChat below.

karpathy / nanochat

Notes: Karpathy released nanochat. It’s a fun project, but it’s so clean that you can make it all yours in any way you like. Make sure to read the discussion.

This repo is a full-stack implementation of an LLM like ChatGPT in a single, clean, minimal, hackable, dependency-lite codebase.

Things I’ve Learned in My 7 Years Implementing AI

Notes: AI will not escape the S-Curve either.

The Art of Scaling Reinforcement Learning Compute for LLMs

Notes: Fantastic paper from Meta.

Who Will Actually Win the AI Coding Wars? Dear subscribers… Behind the Craft by Peter Yang · 6 months ago · 27 likes · 1 comment · Peter Yang Who Will Actually Win the AI Coding Wars?

🔀 Other Reads

The Programmer Identity Crisis

Notes: I hear this a lot now.

The Secret Life of a Local-First Value

Notes: CRDT with SQLite!

rictic / jsonriver

Notes: Useful for parsing JSON from LLMs as it is streamed.

A simple, fast streaming JSON parser built on standards.

Signing off from Redmond, WA.