Emmanuel emmanuelnk

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

TCP echo server for Node.js

Usage

Make sure you have a modern-ish version of Node.js installed.
Type npx https://gist.github.com/kfox/1280c2f0ee8324067dba15300e0f2fd3
Connect to it from a client, e.g. netcat or similar: nc localhost 9000

Upload images to GitHub

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Copy the URL and use it in your Markdown files on GitHub.

How to install virtualenv:

Install pip first

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

Then install virtualenv using pip3

sudo pip3 install virtualenv

Eric Elliott's "Composing Software" Series

A collection of links to the excellent "Composing Software" series of medium stories by Eric Elliott.

Edit: I see that each post in the series now has index, previous and next links. However, they don't follow a linear flow through all the articles with some pointing back to previous posts effectively locking you in a loop.

Eric Elliott's "Master the JavaScript Interview" Series

A collection of links to the "Master the JavaScript Interview" series of medium stories by Eric Elliott.

	// create the rest API for accessing our lambdas
	const api: apigw.RestApi = new apigw.RestApi(this, "blogs-api", {
	description: "blogs api gateway",
	deploy: true,
	deployOptions: {
	// this enables caching on our api gateway, with a ttl of five minutes (unless overridden per method)
	cachingEnabled: true,
	cacheClusterEnabled: true,
	cacheDataEncrypted: true,
	stageName: "prod",

	// A SO answer to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/286141/remove-blank-attributes-from-an-object-in-javascript
	// based off the recursive cleanEmpty function by @chickens.
	// This one can also handle Date objects correctly
	// and has a defaults list for values you want stripped.

	const cleanEmpty = function(obj, defaults = [undefined, null, NaN, '']) {
	if (defaults.includes(obj)) return

	if (Array.isArray(obj))
	return obj

	#!/bin/bash

	##
	# Pure BASH interactive CLI/TUI menu (single and multi-select/checkboxes)
	#
	# Author: Markus Geiger <[email protected]>
	# Last revised 2019-09-11
	#
	# ATTENTION! TO BE REFACTORED! FIRST DRAFT!
	#

	# This file is your Lambda function
	import json
	import boto3


	def save_to_bucket(event, context):
	AWS_BUCKET_NAME = 'my-bucket-name'
	s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
	bucket = s3.Bucket(AWS_BUCKET_NAME)
	path = 'my-path-name.txt'