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

shawwn

This was a response to a Hacker News comment asking me what I've been up to since 2010. I'm posting it here since HN rejects it with "that comment is too long." I suppose that's fair, since this ended up being something of an autobiography.

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What happened after 2010?

edgardo001

Download courses from learning sites with youtube-dl

You can download whole courses from an array of tutorial sites with the CLI tool youtube-dl. In the example further down I'm using my Pluralsight account to get videos from a course at their site. Here is a list of all supported sites that you can download from with this tool

The flags you have to supply may vary depending on which site you make a request to.

You can get a free 3 month trial to Pluralsight by signing up for free to Visual Studio Dev Essentials

Installation

yegappan

Vim has many plugins (vim-go, ale, etc.) that use the quickfix/location list
feature. Some of these plugins process the output of an external command and
update the quickfix list asynchronously as the output becomes available.

Updating a quickfix or location list asynchronously opens up the possibility
that two or more plugins may try to update the same quickfix list with
different output.  Also when a plugin is updating a quickfix list in the
background, the user may issue a command that creates or updates a quickfix
list. The plugin may then incorrectly use this new list to add the entries.

bkaradzic

Why I think Immediate Mode GUI is way to go for GameDev tools

Prerequisites

Before you continue, if you don't know what IMGUI is don't bother reading this post, just ignore it, don't write anything in comments section, etc. If you're curious about IMGUI see bottom of this post, otherwise continue whatever you were doing, this post it's not for you. Thanks!

If you know what IMGUI is, for context read following presentations and blog posts:

• Insomniac’s Web Tools Postmortem

vasanthk

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

• User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
  • Who is going to use it?
  • How are they going to use it?

joyrexus

An introduction to curl using GitHub's API.

Basics

Makes a basic GET request to the specifed URI

curl https://api.github.com/users/caspyin

Includes HTTP-Header information in the output

lukechampine

#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<sys/mman.h>
typedef void V;typedef int I;typedef double F;typedef unsigned char C,*S;typedef long L;
#define O           printf
#define R           return
#define I(a...)     if(a)
#define W(a...)     while(a)

pvalkone

Set up LACP on the switch
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1) Log into the switch management interface (by default at http://192.168.2.10/).
2) Navigate to Trunks > Trunk Configuration
3) Set up a new trunk by giving it a name, choosing "LACP Active" mode and the ports you'd like to aggregate. Click "Apply".

FreeBSD setup
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btoone

Introduction

An introduction to curl using GitHub's API.

The Basics

Makes a basic GET request to the specifed URI

curl https://api.github.com/users/caspyin