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An interactive visual explainer for Andrej Karpathy's microGPT

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Interactive visualizer for Karpathy's 243-line microGPT

by Sayyed23·Feb 12, 2026·1 point·1 comment

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The Take

Type a name and you can literally watch characters turn into IDs, 16‑dim embeddings get added with positional encodings, and causal attention matrices animate per head — all matched numerically to Karpathy's 244‑line microGPT. The implementation is pure TypeScript (no ML libs) and includes a helpful scrollable sidebar with the reference math, which makes this an excellent, low‑friction learning tool — more pedagogical deep dive than research innovation.

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ML students, engineers learning transformers, educators, and curious developers

Post Description

Saw Karpathy drop microgpt yesterday.

Decided to Build an interactive visualizer for it to help me understand it better.

Type a name → watch it flow through the tokenizer, embeddings, and attention heads in real time.

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