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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

I really liked @tjvantoll article Handling Failed HTTP Responses With fetch(). The one thing I found annoying with it, though, is that response.statusText always returns the generic error message associated with the error code. Most APIs, however, will generally return some kind of useful, more human friendly message in the body.

Here's a modification that will capture this message. The key is that rather than throwing an error, you just throw the response and then process it in the catch block to extract the message in the body:

fetch("/api/foo")
  .then( response => {
    if (!response.ok) { throw response }
    return response.json()  //we only get here if there is no error
 })

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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.

	# Adapted from http://json.schemastore.org/json-patch

	components:
	schemas:
	patchRequest:
	type: array
	items:
	oneOf:
	- additionalProperties: false
	required:

	import React from 'react';
	import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
	import { act } from 'react-dom/test-utils';
	import App from './App';

	jest.mock('@okta/okta-auth-js', () => {
	return {
	OktaAuth: jest.fn(() => {
	return {
	userAgent: 'okta/okta-auth-js',

	# This snippet demonstrates Pythonic formatting and parsing of
	# ISO 8601 durations.
	# A little work is required to navigate between Python's
	# timedelta syntax and ISO 8601 duration syntax.

	import re

	from datetime import datetime
	from datetime import timedelta

	import java.util.Arrays;

	import org.springframework.boot.web.client.RestTemplateBuilder;
	import org.springframework.cloud.client.loadbalancer.LoadBalanced;
	import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
	import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
	import org.springframework.hateoas.MediaTypes;
	import org.springframework.hateoas.hal.Jackson2HalModule;
	import org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter;
	import org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate;

	import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference
	import scala.util.{Failure, Success, Try}
	import com.typesafe.config.{Config, ConfigFactory}
	/**
	Use to tweak a Config without clearing and reloading a new config (for testing).

	@author dwalend
	*/
	class AtomicConfigSource(baseConfig:Config) {
	val atomicConfigRef = new AtomicReference[Config](ConfigFactory.empty())

	/**
	* Scala hex / decimal binary calculator
	* (c) Mark Lister 2012
	* Licence Apache 2.
	*/

	class BaseN(b: BigInt, val baseN: Int) extends BigInt(b.underlying) {
	def n(x: Int) = new BaseN(b, x)

	/**

	<!doctype html>
	<!--[if lt IE 7 ]> <html class="no-js ie6" lang="en"> <![endif]-->
	<!--[if IE 7 ]> <html class="no-js ie7" lang="en"> <![endif]-->
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	<!--[if (gte IE 9)\|!(IE)]><!--> <html class="no-js" lang="en" xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml" xmlns:og="http://ogp.me/ns#"> <!--<![endif]-->
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
	<meta name='description' content='{MetaDescription}'>
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">