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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

Programming as Theory Building

Peter Naur

Peter Naur's classic 1985 essay "Programming as Theory Building" argues that a program is not its source code. A program is a shared mental construct (he uses the word theory) that lives in the minds of the people who work on it. If you lose the people, you lose the program. The code is merely a written representation of the program, and it's lossy, so you can't reconstruct

How to disable cloud-init in Ubuntu

Prevent start

Create an empty file to prevent the service from starting
```
  sudo touch /etc/cloud/cloud-init.disabled
```

Uninstall

Phison PS2251-xx USB flash drive controller mode configuration

Overview

Phison based flash drives have various modes that dictate how they operate;

as a regular flash drive (mode 3)
as a dual-volume flash drive (mode 7)
as a single volume flash drive + cdrom (mode 21)

What is the Strict Aliasing Rule and Why do we care?

(OR Type Punning, Undefined Behavior and Alignment, Oh My!)

What is strict aliasing? First we will describe what is aliasing and then we can learn what being strict about it means.

In C and C++ aliasing has to do with what expression types we are allowed to access stored values through. In both C and C++ the standard specifies which expression types are allowed to alias which types. The compiler and optimizer are allowed to assume we follow the aliasing rules strictly, hence the term strict aliasing rule. If we attempt to access a value using a type not allowed it is classified as undefined behavior(UB). Once we have undefined behavior all bets are off, the results of our program are no longer reliable.

Unfortunately with strict aliasing violations, we will often obtain the results we expect, leaving the possibility the a future version of a compiler with a new optimization will break code we th

Async Module Initialization with Inline Modules

The Problem

Modules may need to load non-JS resources that would clearly categorized as dependencies - the module is not truly ready until those resources are (example: templates for UI components). Loading APIs, like fetch() are asynchronous, and there is currently no way to make a module wait for asynchronous calls.

The Problem with Top-Level await

Top-level await, which would block execution within a module on a await expression, has been proposed as a way to solve this problem. It has a critical problem as highlighted here by Rich Harris.

Effective Modern CMake

Getting Started

For a brief user-level introduction to CMake, watch C++ Weekly, Episode 78, Intro to CMake by Jason Turner. LLVM’s CMake Primer provides a good high-level introduction to the CMake syntax. Go read it now.

After that, watch Mathieu Ropert’s CppCon 2017 talk Using Modern CMake Patterns to Enforce a Good Modular Design (slides). It provides a thorough explanation of what modern CMake is and why it is so much better than “old school” CMake. The modular design ideas in this talk are based on the book [Large-Scale C++ Software Design](https://www.amazon.de/Large-Scale-Soft

	// I'm tired of extensions that automatically:
	// - show welcome pages / walkthroughs
	// - show release notes
	// - send telemetry
	// - recommend things
	//
	// This disables all of that stuff.
	// If you have more config, leave a comment so I can add it!!

	{

	$remoteport = bash.exe -c "ifconfig eth0 \| grep 'inet '"
	$found = $remoteport -match '\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}';

	if( $found ){
	$remoteport = $matches[0];
	} else{
	echo "The Script Exited, the ip address of WSL 2 cannot be found";
	exit;
	}