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

ityonemo

A half-hour to learn Zig

This is inspired by https://fasterthanli.me/blog/2020/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust/

Basics

the command zig run my_code.zig will compile and immediately run your Zig program. Each of these cells contains a zig program that you can try to run (some of them contain compile-time errors that you can comment out to play with)

paulfranco

Interview Questions

Kotlin

Q1: What is a primary constructor in Kotlin? ☆☆

Answer: The primary constructor is part of the class header. Unlike Java, you don't need to declare a constructor in the body of the class. Here's an example:

seansawyer

Vim + Eclim + Scala

WARNING! Do not install anything from update sites before installing Eclim! This is because Eclim determines available project natures (android, scala, etc) by trying to discover them at install time. If they are installed on a per-user basis, it won't find them. If you're installing Eclim for use with an existing Eclipse install

You're also better off not to install any plugins via your package manager. Eclim will give you the option to install plugins associated with each project nature from its install wizard.

Install Eclipse Luna. On Arch Linux, it's available in extra.

pacman -Sy eclipse

gatlin

How to add imperative programming to a pure functional language
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Many people bemoan languages such as Haskell for not supporting imperative
programming; they decry the need for math in their computer science.

![Math? In my computer? Yeah right.](http://i.imgur.com/YDIaEPB.jpg)

I'm here to tell you that not only does Haskell make imperative programming a
cinch, but safe and correct as well. Follow along! This post is written in

23Skidoo

-- https://haskell.fpcomplete.com/user/DanBurton/20-intermediate-exercises
-- Originally from http://blog.tmorris.net/posts/20-intermediate-haskell-exercises/

class Fluffy f where
  furry :: (a -> b) -> f a -> f b

-- Exercise 1
-- Relative Difficulty: 1
instance Fluffy [] where
  furry = fmap