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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

WGSL 3D SDF Primitives

Revision: 06.08.2023, https://compute.toys/view/407

Sphere - exact

fn sdSphere(p: vec3f, r: f32) -> f32 {
  return length(p) - r;
}

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like Unreal or Unity for their games (or that's what lot of people think) because d

Conferences

Hydraconf

Summer School

Summer school on practice and theory of Distributed Computing

Books

GPU Optimization for GameDev

Graphics Pipeline / GPU Architecture Overview

2011 - A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011
2015 - Life of a triangle - NVIDIA's logical pipeline
2015 - Render Hell 2.0
2016 - How bad are small triangles on GPU and why?
2017 - GPU Performance for Game Artists
2019 - Understanding the anatomy of GPUs using Pokémon
2020 - GPU ARCHITECTURE RESOURCES

Arch Linux on Chromebook Flip C100P

The ASUS Chromebook Flip C100P (veyron_minnie) is the world's first 10" convertible Chromebook with a full metal chassis, so a user can go from laptop to tablet form factor in a snap. The ASUS Chromebook Flip is powered by a Rockchip quad-core processor with 2GB RAM for incredible performance.

It has a 10-finger multi-touch screen, with a comfortable wide key-pitch keyboard and up to 8 hours battery life for all-day mobile use. The connectivity with dual-band WiFi 802.11ac & BT4.0 support can also provide up to 3 times the speed of 802.11n for faster data transfer. Carved from a single block of aluminum for a seamless design, the ASUS Chromebook Flip is not only beautiful, but durable, too.

These instructions will create a dual-booting environment where you can switch between booting Arch Linux ARM and the stock ChromeOS. No changes are made to the internal eMMC drive, and your new Arch Linux ARM install will run completely from external storage. This is the recommen

	const INDEX: u8 = 0x0;
	const RUN_8: u8 = 0x40;
	const RUN_16: u8 = 0x60;
	const DIFF_8: u8 = 0x80;
	const DIFF_16: u8 = 0xc0;
	const DIFF_24: u8 = 0xe0;
	const COLOR: u8 = 0xf0;

	const MASK_2: u8 = 0xc0;
	const MASK_3: u8 = 0xe0;

	/*
	* premptive_scheduler.c
	*
	* Created on: Apr 26, 2020
	* Author: Sudeep Chandrasekaran
	*/
	#include <stdint.h>
	#include <stdbool.h>
	#include "premptive_scheduler.h"

	#include "mcs_lock.h"

	namespace sync {

	void mcs_lock::lock() {
	//to acquire the lock a thread atomically appends its own local node at the tail of the list returning tail's previous contents
	auto prior_node = tail.exchange(&local_node,
	std::memory_order_acquire);
	if(prior_node != nullptr) {
	local_node.locked = true;