Learn languages with spaced-repetition flashcards you own.
A Love Letter to Flashcards | Lesley Lai
A personal reflection on how spaced repetition and hand crafted flashcards helps me to keep understanding alive
zk-spaced/src at master · matze/zk-spaced
Spaced repetition for zk. Contribute to matze/zk-spaced development by creating an account on GitHub.
Self-Instruct: Aligning Language Models with Self-Generated Instructions
Large "instruction-tuned" language models (i.e., finetuned to respond to instructions) have demonstrated a remarkable ability to generalize zero-shot to new tasks. Nevertheless, they depend...
Online Mandarin Chinese Learning | Mandarin Blueprint
The best way to learn Chinese language online. This is how to learn Chinese in less than twelve months, from zero.
A break from programming languages
This is a blog post I have been considering writing for a long time.
Context Rot: How Increasing Input Tokens Impacts LLM Performance
Claude Sonnet 4, GPT-4.1, Qwen3-32B, and Gemini 2.5 Flash on Repeated Words Task
Magicoder: Empowering Code Generation with OSS-Instruct
We introduce Magicoder, a series of fully open-source (code, weights, and data) Large Language Models (LLMs) for code that significantly closes the gap with top code models while having no more...
Agentics: Memorizing Session Transcripts Isn't Useful
Keep track of artifacts, not scratch. Alt title: Claude, please stop trying to memorize random crap
Introduction | RLHF and Post-Training Book by Nathan Lambert
A first-principles introduction to RLHF, what it changes in language models, and how it became part of modern post-training.
Managing Agent Skills with Your Package Manager | pavel.pink
AI coding agents use skills — markdown files that teach them domain-specific tasks. We publish ours as conda packages and manage them with pixi, getting versioning, lockfiles, and supply chain security for free.
Andrej Karpathy on Twitter / X
We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks:Writing. Something I've had success with: Ask your LLM to explain something in ASD-STE100, it's a controlled language specification originally developed for… pic.twitter.com/uMFWTcBCsl— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) October 2, 2026
Reading Code Is Hard, and tips to improve - Trisha Gee
This week's video for Dave Farley's Continuous Delivery YouTube channel is me ranting about why reading code sucks, and offering some advice on how to improve. "Every programmer occasionally, when nobody’s home, turns off the lights, pours a glass of scotch, puts on some light German electronica, and opens up a file on their computer. ... Read more
Smush
A daily word game. Each letter gets 5 uses. Except the gold one, which is always required.
