veekaybee

Anti-hype LLM reading list

Goals: Add links that are reasonable and good explanations of how stuff works. No hype and no vendor content if possible. Practical first-hand accounts of models in prod eagerly sought.

Foundational Concepts

Pre-Transformer Models

ChevyRay

const INDEX: u8 = 0x0;
const RUN_8: u8 = 0x40;
const RUN_16: u8 = 0x60;
const DIFF_8: u8 = 0x80;
const DIFF_16: u8 = 0xc0;
const DIFF_24: u8 = 0xe0;
const COLOR: u8 = 0xf0;

const MASK_2: u8 = 0xc0;
const MASK_3: u8 = 0xe0;

munrocket

WGSL 3D SDF Primitives

Revision: 06.08.2023, https://compute.toys/view/407

Sphere - exact

fn sdSphere(p: vec3f, r: f32) -> f32 {
  return length(p) - r;
}

dheeptuck

/*
 * premptive_scheduler.c
 *
 *  Created on: Apr 26, 2020
 *      Author: Sudeep Chandrasekaran
 */
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include "premptive_scheduler.h"

raysan5

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like Unreal or Unity for their games (or that's what lot of people think) because d

rusrushal13

Conferences

• Hydraconf

Summer School

• Summer school on practice and theory of Distributed Computing

Books

• Distributed Systems 3rd Edition by Maarten van Steen and Andrew S. Tanenbaum
• Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann

silvesthu

GPU Optimization for GameDev

Graphics Pipeline / GPU Architecture Overview

• 2011 - A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011
• 2015 - Life of a triangle - NVIDIA's logical pipeline
• 2015 - Render Hell 2.0
• 2016 - How bad are small triangles on GPU and why?
• 2017 - GPU Performance for Game Artists
• 2019 - Understanding the anatomy of GPUs using Pokémon
• 2020 - GPU ARCHITECTURE RESOURCES

vurtun

chrisdiana

Arch Linux on Chromebook Flip C100P

The ASUS Chromebook Flip C100P (veyron_minnie) is the world's first 10" convertible Chromebook with a full metal chassis, so a user can go from laptop to tablet form factor in a snap. The ASUS Chromebook Flip is powered by a Rockchip quad-core processor with 2GB RAM for incredible performance.

It has a 10-finger multi-touch screen, with a comfortable wide key-pitch keyboard and up to 8 hours battery life for all-day mobile use. The connectivity with dual-band WiFi 802.11ac & BT4.0 support can also provide up to 3 times the speed of 802.11n for faster data transfer. Carved from a single block of aluminum for a seamless design, the ASUS Chromebook Flip is not only beautiful, but durable, too.

These instructions will create a dual-booting environment where you can switch between booting Arch Linux ARM and the stock ChromeOS. No changes are made to the internal eMMC drive, and your new Arch Linux ARM install will run completely from external storage. This is the recommen

ifknot

#include "mcs_lock.h"

namespace sync {

    void mcs_lock::lock() {
        //to acquire the lock a thread atomically appends its own local node at the tail of the list returning tail's previous contents
        auto prior_node = tail.exchange(&local_node,
                                        std::memory_order_acquire);
        if(prior_node != nullptr) {
            local_node.locked = true;