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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

Thread Pools

Thread pools on the JVM should usually be divided into the following three categories:

CPU-bound
Blocking IO
Non-blocking IO polling

Each of these categories has a different optimal configuration and usage pattern.

This guide is only for Debian Buster (10) as of 2019-01-07. It was tested on a mipsel system (GnuBee PC2).

Enable buster-backports (needed for monit)

echo "deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster-backports main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update

Install prerequisites

My Minimal TypeScript Monorepo Setup for ESM Libraries

After a deep dive looking up best practices for TypeScript monorepos recently, I couldn't find anything that suited my needs:

Publish individual (typed) packages to NPM with minimal config.
Supports fast unit testing that spans the entire project (e.g., via Vitest)
Ability to have an interactive playground to experiment with the API in a real-time (e.g., via Vite)

Most solutions point to TypeScript project references,

Macbook Pro - Ubuntu Install

Requirements

2 USB drives > 2GB

Pre-Install

Create bootable USB drive

Grab the latest Ubuntu Desktop iso image

	/**
	* Retrieves all the rows in the active spreadsheet that contain data and logs the
	* values for each row.
	* For more information on using the Spreadsheet API, see
	* https://developers.google.com/apps-script/service_spreadsheet
	*/
	function readRows() {
	var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
	var rows = sheet.getDataRange();
	var numRows = rows.getNumRows();

	--- Lists the formats that support all the extensions given on the command line.
	--
	-- Usage:
	--
	-- pandoc lua list-formats.lua [extensions,...]
	--
	-- Example:
	--
	-- $ pandoc lua list-formats.lua native_numbering citations
	-- docx

	<?php
	// BOF MANU
	// $old => $new
	$categories = array(
	1 => 3,
	2 => 4,
	3 => 5,
	4 => 6,
	5 => 7,
	6 => 8,

	cache:
	paths:
	- node_modules/
	- .yarn
	stages:
	- build
	- test
	- deploy
	build:
	image: node:10

	import SwiftUI

	/// Supplies an observable object to a view’s hierarchy.
	///
	/// The purpose of `WithBindable` is to make it possible to instantiate
	/// observable objects from environment values, while keeping the object
	/// alive as long as the view is rendered.
	///
	/// For example:
	///