Vinh Nguyen vinhnx

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

Code is clean if it can be understood easily – by everyone on the team. Clean code can be read and enhanced by a developer other than its original author. With understandability comes readability, changeability, extensibility and maintainability.

General rules

Follow standard conventions.
Keep it simple stupid. Simpler is always better. Reduce complexity as much as possible.
Boy scout rule. Leave the campground cleaner than you found it.
Always find root cause. Always look for the root cause of a problem.

	# install DSPy: pip install dspy
	import dspy

	# Ollam is now compatible with OpenAI APIs
	#
	# To get this to work you must include `model_type='chat'` in the `dspy.OpenAI` call.
	# If you do not include this you will get an error.
	#
	# I have also found that `stop='\n\n'` is required to get the model to stop generating text after the ansewr is complete.
	# At least with mistral.

	# vim:fileencoding=utf-8:foldmethod=marker

	# Include theme
	include ./theme.conf

	# ===== Config =====

	font_family Menlo
	font_size 15.0


	import UIKit

	extension UIViewController {
	func nxv_addChildViewController(_ childVC: UIViewController, containerView: UIView) {
	addChild(childVC)
	containerView.addSubview(childVC.view)
	containerView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
	childVC.view.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false

	class MyCell: UITableViewCell {
	let titleLabel = UILabel()
	let subtitleLabel = UILabel()

	override init(style: UITableViewCell.CellStyle, reuseIdentifier: String?) {
	super.init(style: style, reuseIdentifier: reuseIdentifier)
	}

	required init?(coder: NSCoder) { nil }

	import Foundation

	public protocol NetworkLoggable {
	func log<T: CustomStringConvertible>(
	label: String,
	value: T?,
	level: NetworkLogger,
	function: StaticString,
	line: UInt,
	file: String

Vinh Nguyen vinhnx

Anti-hype LLM reading list

Foundational Concepts

Pre-Transformer Models

General rules

Design rules

Architecture

Offline Sync and Cache