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

Frityet

How to install game-porting-toolkit (aka proton for macOS)

You also might wanna just use Whisky which does this automatically

This guide works on macOS 13.4+ using Command Line Tools for XCode 15 Beta!

What is this?

In the recent WWDC, Apple announced and released the "game porting toolkit", which upon further inspection this is just a modified version of CrossOver's fork of wine which is a "compatibility layer" that allows you to run Windows applications on macOS and Linux.

kconner

macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

Starting Points

How to use this gist

You've got two main options:

meeech

Apple Borked my Nix!

Ok, so you've had nix (home-manager) working fine. Then Apple tells you it's time to update.

Ok. Reboot. Oops. It has now broken your Nix setup. Here's some stuff to work through. YMMV.

Note: This is what worked for me, who was just using nix + home-manager. The upgrade that I last did that caused all these issues was 12.3.X > 12.4

Useful Links

henrik242

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# 
# Reads AirTag data from the FindMy.app cache and converts it to a daily GPX file
#
# Rsyncs the data to a web accessible folder that can be displayed with e.g. 
# https://gist.github.com/henrik242/84ad80dd2170385fe819df1d40224cc4
#
# This should typically be run as a cron job
#

CodaFi

Motivation

Swift’s type system supports a number of different ways of taking a function or type and abstracting it. Usually, this is done by adding a generic parameter and an associated set of constraints. Similarly, a function that takes a particular type of argument can be abstracted to any number of those arguments by making it variadic with triple-dot (...) syntax. Today, both of these features are permitted separately: you can define a generic function that takes a variable number of arguments, such as

func debugPrint<T>(_ items: T...) 
  where T: CustomDebugStringConvertible
{   
  for (item: T) in items {
    stdout.write(item.debugDescription)

Holzhaus

\documentclass[border=5pt]{standalone}

\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows, calc, chains, positioning}

\begin{document}
    \begin{tikzpicture}[node distance = 4mm and 0mm,
        box/.style = {shape=rectangle, draw, minimum size=2em, outer sep=0pt, on chain=#1},
        sum/.style = {shape=circle, draw, inner sep=0pt, node contents={$+$}},
        every path/.append style = {-latex'}

marcan

/*
 * m1racle-poc: a basic proof of concept for the M1RACLES vulnerability in the Apple M1.
 * 
 * This program allows you to read and write the state of the s3_5_c15_c10_1 CPU register.
 *
 * Please visit m1racles.com for more information.
 *
 * Licensed under the MIT license.
 */

thalamus

/* 
 * This document is provided to the public domain under the 
 * terms of the Creative Commons CC0 public domain license
 */

How to boot Arch Linux ARM in QEMU (patched for M1)

Prerequisites:

QEMU - patched for M1 processors - patches: https://github.com/utmapp/qemu

DougGregor

extension Collection {
  func parallelMap<T>(
    parallelism requestedParallelism: Int? = nil,
    _ transform: @escaping (Element) async throws -> T
  ) async throws -> [T] {
    let defaultParallelism = 2
    let parallelism = requestedParallelism ?? defaultParallelism

    let n = self.count
    if n == 0 {