Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?

Text is linear, whereas image is parallel. I mean when people often read they don't scan text from left to right (or different direction, depending on language), but rather read the text all at once or non-linearly. Like first lock on keywords and then read adjacent words to get meaning, often even skipping some filler sentences unconsciously.

Sequential reading of text is very inefficient.

What people do you know that do this? I absolutely read in a linear fashion unless I'm deliberately skimming something to get the gist of it. Who can read the text "all at once"?!

I don't know how common it is, but I tend to read novels in a buttered heterogeneous multithreading mode - image and logical and emotional readings all go at each their own paces, rather than a singular OCR engine feeding them all with 1D text

is that crazy? I'm not buying it is