Karpathy’s Pelican: A New Paradigm in Data Curation

In the current era of Large Language Models (LLMs), the prevailing wisdom has long been that more data equals more intelligence. However, Andrej Karpathy suggests a pivot toward a more surgical approach to data acquisition, which he metaphorically terms "The Pelican."

The core philosophy is simple: instead of blindly consuming the entire internet, we should emulate the feeding mechanism of a pelican—scooping up a vast amount of material but meticulously filtering out the debris to keep only the "nutrients."

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