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

tonyfast

import xml.etree, pandas as 🐼, bs4 as 🍲
url=\

https://bl.ocks.org/tonyfast/2947b4bb582e193f5b2a7dbf8b009b62

__import__('requests_cache').install_cache('signal')
import requests
response = requests.get(url)
tree = 🍲.BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'xml')

tonyfast

yossorion

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

tonyfast

tonyfast

sanbor

# Example from http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2013/06/01/ipython-notebook-javascript-python-communication/ adapted for IPython 2.0
# Add an input form similar to what we saw above

from IPython.display import HTML
from math import pi, sin

input_form = """
<div style="background-color:gainsboro; border:solid black; width:600px; padding:20px;">
Code: <input type="text" id="code_input" size="50" height="2" value="sin(pi / 2)"><br>
Result: <input type="text" id="result_output" size="50" value="1.0"><br>

lolzballs

import java.io.FileDescriptor;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.PrintStream;

public class HelloWorld{
	private static HelloWorld instance;
    public static void main(String[] args){
        instantiateHelloWorldMainClassAndRun();

bollwyvl

mtearle

#!/usr/bin/env python
import npyscreen, curses

# Incorporates code
# from http://www.binarytides.com/python-socket-server-code-example/
# Socket server in python using select function
import socket, select

class MyTestApp(npyscreen.NPSAppManaged):
    # socket code