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 and experience preferred (super rare at this point).

My own notes from a few months back.

Background

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

Here are several different ways to test a TCP port without telnet.

BASH (man page)

$ cat < /dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/22
SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.3
^C

$ cat &lt; /dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/23

	/*
	Delta Compression by Glenn Fiedler.
	This source code is placed in the public domain.
	http://gafferongames.com/2015/03/14/the-networked-physics-data-compression-challenge/
	*/

	#include <stdint.h>
	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <assert.h>
	#include <string.h>

	import base64
	from io import BytesIO

	from PIL import Image
	import torch
	import torch.nn as nn
	import ollama
	from diffusers import DiffusionPipeline, StableDiffusionPipeline
	from safetensors.torch import load_file
	from transformers import CLIPProcessor, CLIPModel, AutoImageProcessor, AutoModel

	class Frame extends Component {
	componentDidMount() {
	this.iframeHead = this.node.contentDocument.head
	this.iframeRoot = this.node.contentDocument.body
	this.forceUpdate()
	}

	render() {
	const { children, head, ...rest } = this.props
	return (

	<?php

	require_once __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php';

	use Symfony\Component\Console\Helper\Table;
	use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput;
	use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface;
	use Silex\Application;

	/**

	function install_faiss() {
	pyenv shell rise
	pip install numpy
	sudo apt-get install -y \
	build-essential \
	libopenblas-dev \
	gfortran \
	swig

	PREFIX_MAIN=$(pyenv virtualenv-prefix)

	import string
	import re
	import nltk

	def normalize(text):
	# remove punctuation
	text = re.sub('[%s]' % re.escape(string.punctuation), '', text)
	# split into words
	# nltk.data.path.append("/nltk_data")
	from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize