Two changes, one commit:
1. Reframe "weaknesses" as "extensions memex adds":
Karpathy's gist is a concept pitch, not an implementation. Reframe
the seven places memex extends the pattern as engineering-layer
additions rather than problems to fix. Cleaner narrative — memex
builds on Karpathy's work instead of critiquing it.
Touches README.md (Why each part exists + Credits) and
DESIGN-RATIONALE.md (section titles, trade-off framing, biggest
layer section, scope note at the end).
2. Replace docs/artifacts/signal-and-noise.html with the full
upstream version:
The earlier abbreviated copy dropped the MemPalace integration tab,
the detailed mitigation steps with effort pips, the impact
before/after cards, and the qmd vs ChromaDB comparison. This
restores all of that. Also swaps self-references from "LLM Wiki"
to "memex" while leaving external "LLM Wiki v2" community
citations alone (those refer to a separate pattern and aren't ours
to rename).
The live hosted copy at eric-turner.com/memex/signal-and-noise.html
has already been updated via scp — Hugo picks up static changes with
--poll 1s so the public URL reflects this file immediately.
Replace all four references to the Claude public artifact URL with the
self-hosted version at eric-turner.com/memex/signal-and-noise.html plus
the offline-capable archive at docs/artifacts/signal-and-noise.html.
The Claude artifact can now be unpublished without breaking any links
in the repo. The self-hosted HTML is deployed to the Hugo site's static
directory and lives alongside the archived copy in this repo — either
can stand on its own.
A compounding LLM-maintained knowledge wiki.
Synthesis of Andrej Karpathy's persistent-wiki gist and milla-jovovich's
mempalace, with an automation layer on top for conversation mining, URL
harvesting, human-in-the-loop staging, staleness decay, and hygiene.
Includes:
- 11 pipeline scripts (extract, summarize, index, harvest, stage,
hygiene, maintain, sync, + shared library)
- Full docs: README, SETUP, ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN-RATIONALE, CUSTOMIZE
- Example CLAUDE.md files (wiki schema + global instructions) tuned for
the three-collection qmd setup
- 171-test pytest suite (cross-platform, runs in ~1.3s)
- MIT licensed
