Glavin Wiechert Glavin001

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

If you're using a high-end bluetooth headset on your Macbook Pro it's likely your mac is using an audio codec which favors battery efficiency over high quality. This results in a drastic degradation of sound, the SBC codec is the likely culprit, read more about it here.

Find out what codec you're using

Play a song on your headphones
Option (⌥) click the Bluetooth button at the top of your screen
If you're using AAC or aptX, you can stop here—those are the highest quality codecs.

Change your codec to AAC or aptX

Adding "Copy" (to Clipboard) Button

If you would like to add a button to your fenced code blocks so that users may copy the code, you can do so in Docusaurus. You will have to add some code to your Docusaurus project, as seen below.

Under static/js, create a file called code-block-buttons.js with the following:

// Turn off ESLint for this file because it's sent down to users as-is.
/* eslint-disable */
window.addEventListener('load', function() {

	import tqdm
	import numpy as np
	import torch
	import torch.distributed as dist
	import transformers

	def extract_xml_answer(text: str) -> str:
	answer = text.split("<final_answer>")[-1]
	answer = answer.split("</final_answer>")[0]
	return answer.strip()

	base_model: tiiuae/falcon-7b
	base_model_config: tiiuae/falcon-7b
	trust_remote_code: true
	model_type: AutoModelForCausalLM
	tokenizer_type: AutoTokenizer
	load_in_8bit: false
	load_in_4bit: true
	gptq: false
	strict: false
	push_dataset_to_hub:

	from langchain.llms.base import LLM
	from typing import Optional, List, Mapping, Any
	import requests
	from langchain.llms.utils import enforce_stop_tokens

	class CustomLLM(LLM):

	def __init__(self, url: str):
	self.url = url

	import { GeomUtils, TLCursor } from '@tldraw/core'
	import * as React from 'react'

	function getCursorCss(svg: string, r: number, f = false) {
	return (
	`url("data:image/svg+xml,<svg height='32' width='32' viewBox='0 0 35 35' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'><g fill='none' style='transform-origin:center center' transform='rotate(${r})${
	f ? ` scale(-1,-1) translate(0, -32)` : ''
	}'>` +
	svg.replaceAll(`"`, `'`) +
	'</g></svg>") 16 16, pointer'

	import getPixels from "get-pixels";
	import { max, min } from "lodash";
	import { NdArray } from "ndarray";
	import { Vector3 } from "three";

	// Example, use like:
	const makeHeightfieldColliderFromImage = async () => {
	const heightMapTexture = "myimage.png";
	const xSubdivisions = 200;
	const zSubdivisions = 200;