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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

Sats4Files: Decentralized File Hosting based on Lightning

Sats4Files is a protocol for decentralized file hosting. It allows users to request data from untrusted servers, and upon receiving the encrypted data, they can pay for the decryption key via Lightning. The exchange is atomic, ensuring that the user only receives the data if they pay for it, and the seller only gets paid if they deliver the data. The protocol is an efficient form of verifiable encryption, which is similar to verifiable secret sharing using Shamir's algorithm.

This scheme is simplified and does not fully solve the problem, as discussed in the Limitations section. This writeup intends to spark interest to solve the remaining issues beyond the fixes that we suggest.

Sats4Files Problem

The client wants to buy from the server the file corresponding to a particular file_id.

Here, we assume we have PTLCs on Lightning instead of HTLCs. That means we can buy a discrete logarithm over Li

What i'm using in streams and while working

Development tools

https://fishshell.com/ - my default shell, i use theme bobthefish
https://www.sublimetext.com/ - my default editor
- Material Theme
- Operator font
- Packages: Emmet, Hayaku, SidebarEnhancements, JS Snippets, GSAP Snippets
- Sublime snippet for comments
- Sublime icon
https://code.visualstudio.com/ - trying to switch, but not yet

Awesome Variable Fonts

A list of open source and free* variable fonts.

* Some fonts may require a license to be used for commerical use.

Open Source

Generative Geometry in Browser + Node.js

Here is a script that can be run with canvas-sketch to generate OBJ files from a parametric/algorithmic 3D ThreeJS geometry.

Hitting "Cmd + S" from the canvas-sketch tool will export a PNG and OBJ file of the scene.

If the same script is run from Node, it will simply render the OBJ to stdout, or write to the filename argument if given.

`vs` Questions

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/804115 (rebase vs merge).
https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/merging-vs-rebasing (rebase vs merge)
https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/undoing-changes/ (reset vs checkout vs revert)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2221658 (HEAD^ vs HEAD~) (See git rev-parse)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/292357 (pull vs fetch)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39651 (stash vs branch)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8358035 (reset vs checkout vs revert)

	///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
	// ABOUT: A unity Shader .cginc to draw numbers in the fragment shader
	// AUTHOR: Freya Holmér
	// LICENSE: Use for whatever, commercial or otherwise!
	// Don't hold me liable for issues though
	// But pls credit me if it works super well <3
	// LIMITATIONS: There's some precision loss beyond 3 decimal places
	// CONTRIBUTORS: yes please! if you know a more precise way to get
	// decimal digits then pls lemme know!
	// GetDecimalSymbolAt() could use some more love/precision

	const canvasSketch = require('canvas-sketch');

	const settings = {
	dimensions: [ 2048, 2048 ],
	params: {
	size: {
	min: 50,
	max: 400,
	step: 1,
	value: 200

	const canvasSketch = require('canvas-sketch');
	const { lerp } = require('./util/math');

	const settings = {
	animate: true,
	duration: 3,
	dimensions: [ 640, 640 ],
	scaleToView: true,
	playbackRate: 'throttle',
	fps: 24

	//CC2018
	document.addEventListener('paste', function(evt) {
	//Import SVG copied to clipboard from Illustrator
	//remove last hidden character that will otherwise break the import
	if(document.activeElement.nodeName!="TEXTAREA"){
	var str=evt.clipboardData.getData('text/plain').slice(0, -1);
	var svg=project.importSVG(str)
	svg.clipped=false;
	svg.children[0].remove()
	svg.parent.insertChildren(svg.index,svg.removeChildren());