Tomas tomasdelvechio

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

Setup Phpcs for Sublime Text

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Prerequisites

Download and install composer

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Latency numbers every programmer should know

L1 cache reference ......................... 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict ............................ 5 ns
L2 cache reference ........................... 7 ns
Mutex lock/unlock ........................... 25 ns
Main memory reference ...................... 100 ns             
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy ............. 3,000 ns  =   3 µs
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network ....... 20,000 ns  =  20 µs
SSD random read ........................ 150,000 ns  = 150 µs

Read 1 MB sequentially from memory ..... 250,000 ns = 250 µs

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	NC='\033[0m' # No Color
	YELLOW='\033[0;33m'
	CYAN='\033[0;36m'
	GREEN='\033[0;32m'
	RED='\033[0;31m'
	MAGENTA='\033[0;35m'

	notify_about_actions_required() {
	changed_files="$(git diff-tree -r --name-status --no-commit-id $1 $2)"

	#!/usr/bin/env python3
	"""EC717 Bluetooth Headset Connector for Linux/PulseAudio

	Version 20210228.01


	RATIONALE
	---------

	I got a bluetooth headset as a gift and couldn't get it to work with Linux.

	#!/bin/bash
	###
	### my-script — does one thing well
	###
	### Usage:
	### my-script <input> <output>
	###
	### Options:
	### <input> Input file to read.
	### <output> Output file to write. Use '-' for stdout.

	// create file:
	sudo vim /usr/share/applications/intellij.desktop

	// add the following
	[Desktop Entry]
	Version=13.0
	Type=Application
	Terminal=false
	Icon[en_US]=/home/rob/.intellij-13/bin/idea.png
	Name[en_US]=IntelliJ

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# global parameters
	g_tmp_folder="ncdc_tmp";
	g_output_folder="ncdc_data";

	g_remote_host="ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov";
	g_remote_path="pub/data/noaa";

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	# coding: utf-8

	import argparse
	import os
	import sys
	import time
	import atexit
	import logging
	import signal