Johannes Choo jhanschoo

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

Download Windows Media Player 11, 64 bit (wmp11-windowsxp-x64-enu.exe):

$ cd /tmp/
$ curl -O https://web.archive.org/web/20190512112704/https://download.microsoft.com/download/3/0/8/3080C52C-2517-43DE-BDB4-B7EAFD88F084/wmp11-windowsxp-x64-enu.exe

Extract the archive:

$ cabextract wmp11-windowsxp-x64-enu.exe -d wmp11

Run and close the game through Steam. A Proton prefix is created on the first run.

Go to the game's folder inside Steam's compatdata folder:

$ cd $HOME/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/287290

Set prefix to Windows XP: $ WINEPREFIX=$PWD/pfx wine winecfg

Principles of Adult Behavior

Be patient. No matter what.
Don’t badmouth: Assign responsibility, not blame. Say nothing of another you wouldn’t say to him.
Never assume the motives of others are, to them, less noble than yours are to you.
Expand your sense of the possible.
Don’t trouble yourself with matters you truly cannot change.
Expect no more of anyone than you can deliver yourself.
Tolerate ambiguity.
Laugh at yourself frequently.

I would like to tell my story of burnout at Amazon, considering the fact that there is so many stories out there on both sides of the issue. My story is also on both sides of the issue, and I've had a lot of time to think about why people can see the same culture but come away with completely different conclusions. This is a throwaway because I still work there and I don't plan on changing that, and I don't exactly trust the company to take this in good faith, despite the fact that I mean this as a purely constructive criticism for a company that I really do like.

I am an autodidact (my formal education only tangentially describes what I can do), and a polymath (capable of holding my own amongst PhD-level Operations Researchers, Statisticians, Econometricians, Data Scientists, Computer Scientists, as well as Software Engineers). I love to solve real world problems, and in many ways am the perfect type of person for Amazon's culture. I started in a level 5 position, but felt from the beginning that I warrant

Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness

Instructions to Subjects Included With Task Slips Packet

This is a study of interpersonal closeness, and your task, which we think will be quite enjoyable, is simply to get close to your partner. We believe that the best way for you to get close to your partner is for you to share with them and for them to share with you. Of course, when we advise you about getting close to your partner, we are giving advice regarding your behavior in this demonstration only, we are not advising you about your behavior outside of this demonstration.

In order to help you get close we've arranged for the two of you to engage in a kind of sharing game. You're sharing time will be for about one hour, after which time we ask you to fill out a questionnaire concerning your experience of getting close to your partner.

You have been given three sets of slips. Each slip has a question or a task written on it. As soon as you both finish reading these instructions, you should

Running Ubuntu on a Macbook Air

You don't have to be a slave to OS X! Here's a guide to a sane dual-booting setup with Ubuntu 12.10 on your shiny MacBook Air. This is written and tested for a MacBook Air 5,2 (Mid 2012), but likely works the same with any modern Macbook.

Install according to instructions at this URL:

Business Models

Advertising

Models	Examples
Display ads	Yahoo!
Search ads	Google

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	<li><a href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/">A List Apart — for website builders</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://abstrusegoose.com/">Abstruse Goose — my favorite comic</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://al3x.net/">Alex Payne — technology rambling</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://dashes.com/anil/">Anil Dash — on culture, apple & design</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/">Asa Dotzler — on mozilla & software</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.azarask.in/blog/">Aza Raskin – on design & firefox</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://christophzillgens.com/en/">Christoph Zillgens — interface design</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://cssremix.com/">CSS Remix — gorgeous designs</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://css-tricks.com/">CSS Tricks</a></li>

	minikube start --kubernetes-version=v1.7.0 --extra-config=apiserver.Authorization.Mode=RBAC

	kubectl create clusterrolebinding add-on-cluster-admin --clusterrole=cluster-admin --serviceaccount=kube-system:default

	minikube dashboard