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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

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Originally tweeted by Adam Wathan: https://twitter.com/adamwathan/status/1217864323466432516?lang=en

Codepen: https://codepen.io/adamwathan/pen/bGNxMpz?editors=1000

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Oh my zsh.

Install ZSH.

sudo apt install zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh

Install Oh my ZSH.

Myths Hackers Believe About Names

People have exactly one "official" full name.
People have exactly one full name which they go by.
People have, at this point in time, exactly one canonical full name.
People have exactly N names, for any value of N.
People’s names fit within a certain defined amount of space.
People’s names do not change.
People’s names are written in ASCII.
People’s names are written in any single character set.

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html lang="en">

	<head>
	<meta charset="UTF-8">
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
	<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
	<title>Document</title>
	<style>
	#header {


	declare -ar _status=(
	[ 0]=😀 # Success
	[ 1]=🤨 # Error
	[129]=📞 # SIGHUP
	[130]=🛑 # SIGINT
	[131]="(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻" # SIGQUIT
	[132]=👮 # SIGILL
	[133]=🐍 # SIGTRAP
	[134]=💥 # SIGABRT

	declare -a elems=(
	"a 1"
	"b 2"
	"c 3 word"
	"d 4"
	)

	for elem in "${elems[@]}"; do
	read -a strarr <<< "$elem" # uses default whitespace IFS
	echo ${strarr[0]} ${strarr[1]} ${strarr[2]}

	-- Licensed under the MIT License, Copyright (c) 2024 jack.ink

	local function resume_with_error_check(thread: thread, ...: any): ()
	local success, message = coroutine.resume(thread, ...)

	if not success then
	print(string.char(27) .. "[31m" .. message)
	end
	end

	// This is a documented version of the build.gradle file from RemotePreferences:
	// https://github.com/apsun/RemotePreferences/blob/master/library/build.gradle.kts
	//
	// It aims to explain exactly WTF is going on when you inevitably copy-paste
	// someone's build.gradle from the internet and can't figure out why it's not
	// working.
	//
	// It contains, to the best of my knowledge, the best practices as of Oct 2023 for
	// building an Android library and publishing it to OSSRH (Maven Central).
	//

	wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openssl/libssl1.1_1.1.0g-2ubuntu4_amd64.deb
	sudo dpkg -i libssl1.1_1.1.0g-2ubuntu4_amd64.deb