Karpathy-Inspired Claude Code Guidelines is a curated learning and experimentation repository inspired by the work and teaching philosophy of Andrej Karpathy, designed to help learners build practical competence in deep learning, neural networks, and AI infrastructure. The project organizes a progressive path through exercises, notebooks, code examples, and practical mini-projects that echo Karpathy’s approach to “learning by doing,” where students build core concepts from first principles rather than consuming superficial abstractions. It covers topics like implementing backpropagation from scratch, understanding convolutional and recurrent networks, building simple training loops, and exploring real datasets with hands-on code. This collection makes abstract theoretical ideas concrete by walking learners through real code and tangible outcomes, helping demystify parts of machine learning that often feel opaque in purely textbook settings.
Features
- Hands-on exercises inspired by Andrej Karpathy’s teaching
- Practical notebooks for neural network fundamentals
- Implementation of machine learning building blocks from scratch
- Progressive learning path from basics to intermediate topics
- Real dataset experiments to solidify concepts
- Community contributions and extensions