James Wade JamesHWade

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

Setting Up WSL

Install A Distro:

Run the following in powershell as admin Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux
Install a distro (ex: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9N9TNGVNDL3Q)
Open your distro you installed via the start menu, let it setup
Update and upgrade

sudo apt-get update

Smart Caps Lock: Remap to Control AND Escape (Linux, Mac, Windows)

把 Caps Lock 變成智慧的 Control 以及 Escape ：

單獨輕按一下就是 Escape 。
若按下時同時按著其他鍵，就會是 Control 。

這應該是 Vim 和 Emacs 的最佳解了！(Emacs? Bash 的快捷鍵就是 Emacs 系列的)

Send Escape if you tap Caps Lock alone.

	#' Description
	#' This file runs a live election-night forecast based on The Economist's pre-election forecasting model
	#' available at projects.economist.com/us-2020-forecast/president.
	#' It is resampling model based on https://pkremp.github.io/update_prob.html.
	#' This script does not input any real election results! You will have to enter your picks/constraints manually (scroll to the bottom of the script).
	#'
	#' Licence
	#' This software is published by [The Economist](https://www.economist.com) under the [MIT licence](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT). The data generated by The Economist are available under the [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
	#' The licences include only the data and the software authored by The Economist, and do not cover any Economist content or third-party data or content made available using the software. More information about licensing, syndication and the copyright of Economist content can be fou

	# https://twitter.com/jonlovett/status/1191490424965218304
	# What I'm curious about is how we're distributed inside of our time zones, because the further east you are inside of a time zone, the harder standard time hits. Boston's sunset is 4:34pm today. Brutal. Detroit's sunset, on the other side of the same time zone, is 5:22pm.


	# I'm a big fan of Jon Lovett's podcasts, and I love trying new things in R, so it was Game On when I saw the tweet above. I googled around and combined a few data sources to get US counties' populations, coordinates, sunsets, and time zones. From those you can see who has it worst in the evenings when standard time kicks in.

	# Curiously, big cities in the US tend to be on the east, "darker evening" end of their time zones.


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