veekaybee

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

taskylizard

Moved to https://api.fmhy.net

canterberry

// (Buffer is available in Node.js as a global, but we require it this way for compatibility)
// See: https://nodejs.org/api/buffer.html#buffer_buffer
const { Buffer } = require('buffer');
const crypto = require('crypto');

const keyPair = crypto.createECDH('secp256k1');

keyPair.generateKeys();

// Print the PEM-encoded private key

yossorion

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

manigandham

Strictly Frameworks

• Mobiledoc - github.com/bustle/mobiledoc-kit - framework to build editors with a standardized JSON structure
• ShareDB - github.com/share/sharedb - framework to sync any JSON document using operational transforms, add real-time collaborative editing to anything else
• Bangle.dev - github.com/bangle-io/bangle.dev - toolkit built for building editors, based on prosemirror

Abstracted Editors

These use separate document structures instead of HTML, some are more modular libraries than full editors

paulirish

/* bling.js */
window.$ = document.querySelector.bind(document);
window.$$ = document.querySelectorAll.bind(document);
Node.prototype.on = window.on = function(name, fn) { this.addEventListener(name, fn); };
NodeList.prototype.__proto__ = Array.prototype;
NodeList.prototype.on = function(name, fn) { this.forEach((elem) => elem.on(name, fn)); };

donkaban

#!/bin/bash

rm -rf /Volumes/ramdisk

if [[ $(mount | awk '$3 == "/Volumes/ramdisk" {print $3}') != "" ]]; then
    echo /Volumes/ramdisk is mounted
else
    diskutil erasevolume HFS+ "ramdisk" `hdiutil attach -nomount ram://8475854`
fi

koteq

# coding: utf-8
# based on http://baguzin.ru/wp/?p=7873

import re


class AssParser:
    def __init__(self):
        self.dialog_re = re.compile(r'Dialogue:(?:[^,]*,){9}(.*)')

ur001

def track_field_changes(only=None, exclude=()):
    """
    Django models decorator for tracking fields changes

        :only: fields to track for changes (all otherwise)
        :exclude: fields to exclude from tracking

    Adds to model instance:
        get_old_value(field_name) — old value of given field
        is_changed(field_name=None) — is any field (or given field) is changed

hausen

"Fixing" xkcd 1340 (or making the most redonkulous clock ever)

Update: feeling adventurous? Clone or fork the xkcd clock! If you just want to see it in action or get a glimpse of how it works, keep reading.

Problem

The date in [xkcd's comic number 1340][1] [does not change][2].