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veekaybee / normcore-llm.md
Last active July 12, 2024 10:47
Normcore LLM Reads

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

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Pre-Transformer Models

@kconner
kconner / macOS Internals.md
Last active July 7, 2024 19:42
macOS Internals

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:

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// Demonstrates using a MetalKit compute shader to render a live waterfall RGB bitmap
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// It includes AppDelegate for a minimal demonstration app
@nadavrot
nadavrot / Matrix.md
Last active July 16, 2024 10:05
Efficient matrix multiplication

High-Performance Matrix Multiplication

This is a short post that explains how to write a high-performance matrix multiplication program on modern processors. In this tutorial I will use a single core of the Skylake-client CPU with AVX2, but the principles in this post also apply to other processors with different instruction sets (such as AVX512).

Intro

Matrix multiplication is a mathematical operation that defines the product of

@aparrish
aparrish / understanding-word-vectors.ipynb
Last active July 9, 2024 15:59
Understanding word vectors: A tutorial for "Reading and Writing Electronic Text," a class I teach at ITP. (Python 2.7) Code examples released under CC0 https://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/, other text released under CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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//
// MyMetalWaterfall.swift
// version 0.1.105 (updated for Swift 5)
//
// Demonstrates using a MetalKit compute shader to render a live waterfall RGB bitmap
// into a UIView
//
// This is a single file iOS app
//
// It includes AppDelegate for a minimal demonstration app

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.


Effective Engineer - Notes

What's an Effective Engineer?

@loderunner
loderunner / osx-ld.md
Last active July 7, 2024 00:47
potential blog posts

ld – Wading through Mac OS X linker hell

Intro

Friend: I tried looking at static linking in Mac OS X and it seems nearly impossible. Take a look at this http://stackoverflow.com/a/3801032

Me: I have no idea what that -static flag does, but I'm pretty sure that's not how you link to a library. Let me RTFM a bit.

Minutes later...

@laughinghan
laughinghan / InterVer.md
Last active January 6, 2024 07:22
Interface Versioning - Never break backcompat, keep the API nimble

Interface Versioning (InterVer)

Never break backcompat, keep the API nimble

An extension of SemVer with a stricter (yet more realistic) backcompat guarantee, that provides more flexibility to change the API, for libraries that are packaged and downloaded (not services accessed remotely over the Internet (see Note 4)).