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

fredjoseph

Awesome Apps

Powerline

• description: Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, fish, tmux, IPython, Awesome, i3 and Qtile.
• language: Python

curlie

• description: If you like the interface of HTTPie but miss the features of curl, curlie is what you are searching for. Curlie is a frontend to curl that adds the ease of use of httpie, without compromising on features and performance. All curl options are exposed with syntax sugar and output formatting inspired from httpie.
• language: Go

swyxio

Update

The first post has been published: https://www.swyx.io/writing/cloud-distros

The second post has been adapted for Temporal: https://www.swyx.io/why-temporal/

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these are bullet points of a blogpost on a topic i know very little about but i feel like there is something there that is happening as we speak

creationix

I've designed a lot of RPC protocols in my career. One pattern that's worked well basically goes as follows:

// Client calls: print('Hello World\n')
-> [1, "print", "Hello World!\n"]
// Server sends return value (or lack of return vvalue)
<- [-1]

// Client calls: add(1, 2)
-> [2, "add", 1, 2]

saibotsivad

Better Web Styles

This is meant to be used as a bookmarklet, where you click it and it'll apply some basic styling rules to the page you're on.

Primarily, this is designed to be used on those old websites that don't have any styling rules, e.g. http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm

TehShrike

1. Do you believe the Bible, consisting of the Old and New Testaments, to be the inspired and inerrant Word of God, and its doctrine of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ to be the perfect and only true way for a man to be saved? Do you?
2. Do you confess that because of your sinfulness, you abhor and humble yourself before God, and that you trust for salvation, not in yourself, but in the Lord Jesus Christ alone? Do you?
3. Do you acknowledge Jesus Christ as your sovereign Lord, and do you promise, in reliance on the grace of God, to serve Him with all that is in you, to forsake the world, to mortify the deeds of the flesh, and to lead a godly life? Do you?
4. Will you be a faithful member of this congregation, share in its worship and ministry through your prayers and gifts as you are able, offer your study and service, and so fulfill your calling to be a disciple of Jesus Christ? Will you?
5. Will you devote yourself to the church’s teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the pra

Rich-Harris

A hastily-written strawman for how bare imports could be resolved in browsers — see this convo.

jonschlinkert

Strategic control point index

Businesses with high strategic control have more sustainable profitability, stronger competitive advantage, and higher valuations. Many business hit multiple strategic control points, and it's possible for businesses to combine multiple control points, even low control, to achieve a much greater level of strategic control in aggregate.

High strategic control:

• 10 — Monopoly, patent, own the standard
• 9 — Control of value chain
• 8 — Control of supply, string of superdominant positions
• 7 — Control of distribution, owning the customer relationship, owning customer information flow

jonschlinkert

Code project conversion funnel

A page-rank-like approach to scoring code libraries for quality and dependability. This is a quick-pass attempt at translating metrics we have readily available in the code community into a conversion funnel that might be familiar to marketers.

Conversion funnel equivalent	Metric	Description
awareness	github stars	Equivalent of "likes", but only slightly better than visits (it's possible to have many stars per one visitor). This metric only proves awareness, no causal relationship to actual interest, "real" popularity, code quality, trust, intent to use, or advancement in the conversion funnel.
interest	dependents	Dependants are a sign of awareness and commitment from the authors that chose to depend on the library, but no correlation to actual usage, commitment from upstream implementors and users to use the dependent, and is just as likely to represent herd mentality or a reaction to recent awareness as it is to be a p

adeekshith

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