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

robertknight

How to test NVDA screen reader behaviour on a Mac:

1. Download Microsoft Edge VM from https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/
2. Download Virtualbox and import the Edge VM image.

Then in the VM:

1. Install guest addons in the VM
2. Download & install latest NVDA from nvaccess.org
3. Download & install SharpKeys and use it to map left an alternative key (eg. Left Ctrl) to the Insert key. This is needed because Macs do not typically have an “Insert” key which is the prefix for many NVDA commands.

ntamvl

Ubuntu 16 – how to increase maximum file open limit ( ulimit -n )

If you are setting up nginx,chances are you will discover your worker_connections is at some low number, such as 1024. You can’t increase this number unless you increase kernel limit as well. First of all run cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max to discover your maximum limit.

abc@ubuntu:~$ cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
1048576
abc@ubuntu:~$ ulimit -n
1024

aishikaty

☀️ UI Libraries

• redom (1.6k) - Tiny turboboosted JavaScript library for creating user interfaces
• frzr (1.6k) - Turboboosted 2 KB view library for browser & node.js
• killroy (1.9k) - A tiny ui library inspired by React
• real-dom (0.7k) - A ~1K non-virtual DOM non-framework framework for simple apps
• domchanger (1.8k) - Dombuilder that applies diffs only to the real dom
• vomit (3.2k) - A high order function using virtual dom to build user interfaces
• bel (3.5k) - A simple library for composable DOM elements using tagged template strings
• yo-yo (5.4k) - A tiny library for building modular UI components using DOM diffing and ES6 tagged template literals (build on bel)
• [choo](https://github.com/yos

gaearon

function mapValues(obj, fn) {
  return Object.keys(obj).reduce((result, key) => {
    result[key] = fn(obj[key], key);
    return result;
  }, {});
}

function pick(obj, fn) {
  return Object.keys(obj).reduce((result, key) => {
    if (fn(obj[key])) {

paulirish

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

• elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

glen-cheney

Encoding Video

Installing

Install FFmpeg with homebrew. You'll need to install it with a couple flags for webm and the AAC audio codec.

brew install ffmpeg --with-libvpx --with-libvorbis --with-fdk-aac --with-opus

voided

{Robot, Adapter, TextMessage, EnterMessage, LeaveMessage, Response} = require 'hubot'

SkypeHostServer = require './skypehost'


class SkypeHost extends Adapter

  send: (envelope, strings...) ->
    @server.sendChat str for str in strings

staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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dypsilon

Backend Development

• node.js
  • Installation paths: use one of these techniques to install node and npm without having to sudo.
  • Node.js HOWTO: Install Node+NPM as user (not root) under Unix OSes
  • Felix's Node.js Guide
  • Creating a REST API using Node.js, Express, and MongoDB
  • Node Cellar Sample Application with Backbone.js, Twitter Bootstrap, Node.js, Express, and MongoDB
  • JavaScript Event Loop
• Node.js for PHP programmers