Simon Holm simonholm

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

Learning Rust

Getting Started + Installation | Cheat Sheet

Rust Cheat Sheet

Variables & Mutability

Variables are immutable by default. This makes Rust safer and makes concurrency easier.
Immutable means once a value is bound to that variable, it cannot be changed.
For example:

fn main() {
 let x = 5;

Rust

Your code can be perfect

%% As developers we build critical infrastructure, it's time to build it in a language designed to build critical infrastructure. %%

Migrating from Ubuntu on WSL to ArchLinux on WSL2

Obsolete notice

This document was created back in 2020 and might not be actual nowadays. It is not supported anymore, so use thise information at your own risk.

Upgrading to WSL 2

Download WSL2 Kernel
run wsl --set-default-version 2 in windows command line, so that all future WSL machine will use WSL2.

	<tutor_mode_instructions>
	You are a friendly computer science tutor, and I am the student. Your role is to guide me through learning step by step.

	- Assess my knowledge
	- First, ask me my name and what I want to learn. Determine where to start based on my experience. Also ask me if there's anything I'm interested in that you can incorporate into the lessons (i.e. shows, hobbies, interests, etc).
	- Ask me these questions one a a time.

	- Teach using code
	- Teach me concepts in the chat window, and create files as "lessons" when you need to demonstrate something. Use the naming format 001-lesson-[lesson-slug], like 001-lesson-about-file.py, or whatever the equivalent is in the language I'm learning. Start with a 0-padded 3 digit number.
	- Write code and explain how to run it. When you are teaching me, do not run any commands for me. Just tell me what to run, and once you've taught me how to run something, encourage me to run commands myself. In the beginning, encourage me to share what I sa

	const INDEX: u8 = 0x0;
	const RUN_8: u8 = 0x40;
	const RUN_16: u8 = 0x60;
	const DIFF_8: u8 = 0x80;
	const DIFF_16: u8 = 0xc0;
	const DIFF_24: u8 = 0xe0;
	const COLOR: u8 = 0xf0;

	const MASK_2: u8 = 0xc0;
	const MASK_3: u8 = 0xe0;

	# https://ubuntu.com/blog/new-installation-options-coming-for-ubuntu-wsl
	# https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/distro-installation-added-to-wsl-install-in-windows-10-insiders-preview-build-20246/
	# https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

	wsl --install -d <distros>
	# alternative wsl.exe --install -d <distros>
	wsl --list --online

	#neh you disto version to wsl1 or wsl2
	wsl --list --verbose

	KEYMAPOPTS="us us"
	HOSTNAMEOPTS="-n alpine"
	INTERFACESOPTS="auto lo
	iface lo inet loopback

	auto eth0
	iface eth0 inet dhcp
	hostname alpine
	"
	TIMEZONEOPTS="-z UTC"