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

getify

What Hiring Should Look Like

This is definitely not the first time I've written about this topic, but I haven't written formally about it in quite awhile. So I want to revisit why I think technical-position interviewing is so poorly designed, and lay out what I think would be a better process.

I'm just one guy, with a bunch of strong opinions and a bunch of flaws. So take these suggestions with a grain of salt. I'm sure there's a lot of talented, passionate folks with other thoughts, and some are probably a lot more interesting and useful than my own.

But at the same time, I hope you'll set aside the assumptions and status quo of how interviewing is always done. Just because you were hired a certain way, and even if you liked it, doesn't mean that it's a good interview process to repeat.

If you're happy with the way technical interviewing currently works at your company, fine. Just stop, don't read any further. I'm not going to spend any effort trying to convince you otherwise.

vkWeb

Every open source contributor at some point reviews pull requests. Pulling the contents of the PR locally is important to test the code. Many a times reviewers themselves want to fix stuff on the PR like merge conflicts, typos. GitHub has documentation to deal with this but I never found those simple enough so here's the way I suggest reviewing PRs:

Keep in mind upstream refers to the original repository from which you forked and your own forked copy is called origin.

Note: Things in UPPERCASE are placeholders for some GitHub specific values. You'll understand them by reading.

# Fetch PR
git fetch upstream refs/pull/PULLREQ_NUMBER/head:pr-PULLREQ_NUMBER

aslushnikov

// This injects a box into the page that moves with the mouse;
// Useful for debugging
async function installMouseHelper(page) {
  await page.evaluateOnNewDocument(() => {
    // Install mouse helper only for top-level frame.
    if (window !== window.parent)
      return;
    window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {
      const box = document.createElement('puppeteer-mouse-pointer');
      const styleElement = document.createElement('style');