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OP - I was aware it was coined by Karpathy, but confess that I never knew the meaning in relation to his way of working which is cool. It's the snarky types on reddit who use that term derisively - and right, I should just ignore them. So, good points - I have to agree with you've said.
fwiw i did read and enjoy the article, so don't take any of my tone above as discouragement!
Appreciate that.