Dana Bauer danabauer

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

TL;DR
Zsh initializations
- Zsh way of $PATH
- the special macOS
/usr/libexec/path_helper

The .*shrc file

How to add an image to a gist

Create or find a gist that you own.

Clone your gist (replace <hash> with your gist's hash):

# with ssh
git clone [email protected]:<hash>.git mygist

# with https

git clone https://gist.github.com/.git mygist

	#!/bin/bash
	# A simple script for converting files between CSV and Parquet formats using DuckDB. Requires DuckDB installation.

	convert_file() {
	local input_file="$1"
	local output_extension="$2"

	# Extracting the filename without extension
	local base_name=$(basename -- "$input_file")
	local name="${base_name%.*}"

	-- When SQLite is compiled with the JSON1 extensions it provides builtin tools
	-- for manipulating JSON data stored in the database.
	-- This is a gist showing SQLite return query data as a JSON object.
	-- https://www.sqlite.org/json1.html

	-- An example table with some data
	CREATE TABLE users (
	id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
	full_name TEXT NOT NULL,
	email TEXT NOT NULL,

	Write a program that does what it’s supposed to do
	Write idiomatic code
	Debug a program that you wrote
	Debug a program someone else wrote
	Debug the interaction between a system you wrote and one you didn’t
	File a good bug report
	Modify a program you didn’t write
	Test a program you wrote
	Test a program you didn’t write
	Learn a new programming language

Dana Bauer danabauer

Anti-hype LLM reading list

Foundational Concepts

Pre-Transformer Models

How to add an image to a gist

FarmShots Imagery API

Table of contents

API