Prabhu Saitu psaitu

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

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

Swift Concurrency Manifesto

Author: Chris Lattner

Chinese Translation by Jason Yu

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

By Edmond Lau
Highly Recommended 👍
http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

Principles of Adult Behavior

Be patient. No matter what.
Don’t badmouth: Assign responsibility, not blame. Say nothing of another you wouldn’t say to him.
Never assume the motives of others are, to them, less noble than yours are to you.
Expand your sense of the possible.
Don’t trouble yourself with matters you truly cannot change.
Expect no more of anyone than you can deliver yourself.
Tolerate ambiguity.
Laugh at yourself frequently.

iTerm2

NOTE: this gist is outdated, refer to this repository instead - https://github.com/ghaiklor/iterm-fish-fisher-osx

Install iTerm 2

Download and install iTerm2 (it has better color fidelity than the built in Terminal).

Install Color Scheme

Update

I've moved this gist to https://github.com/phynet/iOS-Schemes please check it there ;)

Author: https://www.cyanhall.com/

1. The Layer Tree

Core Animation's original name is Layer Kit

Core Animation is a compositing engine; its job is to compose different pieces of visual content on the screen, and to do so as fast as possible. The content in question is divided into individual layers stored in a hierarchy known as the layer tree. This tree forms the underpinning for all of UIKit, and for everything that you see on the screen in an iOS application.

In UIView, tasks such as rendering, layout and animation are all managed by a Core Animation class called CALayer. The only major feature of UIView that isn’t handled by CALayer is user interaction.

There are four hierarchies, each performing a different role:

	// KeyboardAvoidable
	// Roy McKenzie

	protocol KeyboardAvoidable: class {
	func addKeyboardObservers(customBlock: ((CGFloat) -> Void)?)
	func removeKeyboardObservers()
	var layoutConstraintsToAdjust: [NSLayoutConstraint] { get }
	}

	var KeyboardShowObserverObjectKey: UInt8 = 1

	export class SyncPath {
	constructor(rootRef, path) {
	this._rootRef = rootRef;
	this.user = this._rootRef.getAuth();
	this._userDataRef = this._rootRef.child(path).child(this.user.uid);
	this.data = {};
	this._userDataRef.on('value', (snap) => this.data = snap.val() \|\| {});
	}
	keys() {
	return Object.keys(this.data);