Mav TheMaverickProgrammer

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.

	;; This elisp code uses use-package, a macro to simplify configuration. It will
	;; install it if it's not available, so please edit the following code as
	;; appropriate before running it.

	;; Note that this file does not define any auto-expanding YaSnippets.

	;; Install use-package
	(package-install 'use-package)

	;; AucTeX settings - almost no changes


	// color1 and color2 are R4G4B4 12bit RGB color values, alpha is 0-255
	uint16_t blend_12bit( uint16_t color1, uint16_t color2, uint8_t alpha ) {
	uint64_t c1 = (uint64_t) color1;
	uint64_t c2 = (uint64_t) color2;
	uint64_t a = (uint64_t)( alpha >> 4 );
	// bit magic to alpha blend R G B with single mul
	c1 = ( c1 \| ( c1 << 12 ) ) & 0x0f0f0f;
	c2 = ( c2 \| ( c2 << 12 ) ) & 0x0f0f0f;
	uint32_t o = ( ( ( ( c2 - c1 ) * a ) >> 4 ) + c1 ) & 0x0f0f0f;

Mav TheMaverickProgrammer

Anti-hype LLM reading list

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