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ProjectLanguageHealth GradeStarsLicenseCompare
afshinea/stanford-cme-295-transformers-large-language-modelsSoftwareGrade B⭐ 5.0kMIT LicenseCompare ⚔️
ros2/ros2SoftwareGrade B⭐ 6.3kMITCompare ⚔️
jason718/awesome-self-supervised-learningSoftwareGrade B⭐ 6.4kMITCompare ⚔️
multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skillsSoftwareGrade B⭐ 230.3kMITCompare ⚔️
getify/You-Dont-Know-JSSoftwareGrade B⭐ 184.8kOtherCompare ⚔️
x1xhlol/system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-toolsSoftwareGrade B⭐ 144.5kGNU General Public License v3.0Compare ⚔️

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VIP cheatsheet for Stanford's CME 295 Transformers and Large Language Models

⭐ 5.0k stars🔀 724 forks⚖️ MIT License💻 Software
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ros2 / ros2

Grade B

The Robot Operating System, is a meta operating system for robots.

⭐ 6.3k stars🔀 980 forks⚖️ MIT💻 Software

A curated list of awesome self-supervised methods

⭐ 6.4k stars🔀 835 forks⚖️ MIT💻 Software

A single CLAUDE.md file to improve Claude Code behavior, derived from Andrej Karpathy's observations on LLM coding pitfalls.

⭐ 230.3k stars🔀 22.9k forks⚖️ MIT💻 Software

A book series (2 published editions) on the JS language.

⭐ 184.8k stars🔀 33.3k forks⚖️ Other💻 Software

FULL Augment Code, Claude Code, Cluely, CodeBuddy, Comet, Cursor, Devin AI, Junie, Kiro, Leap.new, Lovable, Manus, NotionAI, Orchids.app, Perplexity, Poke, Qoder, Replit, Same.dev, Trae, Traycer AI, VSCode Agent, Warp.dev, Windsurf, Xcode, Z.ai Code, Dia & v0. (And other Open Sourced) System Prompts, Internal Tools & AI Models

⭐ 144.5k stars🔀 34.7k forks⚖️ GNU General Public License v3.0💻 Software

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