Karpathy publishes Software 2.0 on Medium

Published Software 2.0 on Medium — argued that the weights of a neural network are themselves the code: programmers specify the behavior and optimization finds the solution

Why it matters

Planted the generational vocabulary of Software 1.0/2.0 and became the prototype for every later Software N.0 discussion

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Officialkarpathy.medium.comhttps://karpathy.medium.com/software-2-0-a64152b37c35

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