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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

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Color

"The fundamental uses of color in information design (are): to label, to measure, to represent or imitate reality, to enliven or decorate." Dr. Tufte provides a few specific guidelines on the use of color:
"Color spots against a light gray or muted field highlight and italicize data." "Note the effectiveness and elegance of small spots of intense, saturated color for carrying information."
"use colors found in nature, especially those on the lighter side."
"For encoding information,... more than 20 or 30 colors frequently produce not diminishing but negative returns."
"The primary colors (yellow, red, blue) and black provides maximum differentiation (no four colors differ more)."
In color maps, use a single hue, Don't use up the entire color spectrum, or even all of a hue's levels. Particularly avoid Roy G. Biv (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet), the color spectrum of the rainbow. It's good physics, but poor human factors. Like all multi-hue color maps, the non-equidistant hue changes a