dsmatthews

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

	# train_grpo.py
	#
	# See https://github.com/willccbb/verifiers for ongoing developments
	#
	"""
	citation:

	@misc{brown2025grpodemo,
	title={Granular Format Rewards for Eliciting Mathematical Reasoning Capabilities in Small Language Models},
	author={Brown, William},

	# Must be run in console to work properly
	import numpy as np
	import cv2
	import time
	from scipy import signal
	import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
	import matplotlib
	import threading

	import scipy.signal as sig

	/*******************************************************************************

	TINY TACHOMETER



	TACOMETRO C/ PIC12F675 E LCD (M�TODO LPLEX - 3 FIOS)

	METODO: LEITURA DO PERIODO

	//Leonardo
	Serial_ & dbgTerminal = Serial;
	HardwareSerial & espSerial = Serial1;

	////UNO & M328P
	//#include <SoftwareSerial.h>
	//SoftwareSerial dbgTerminal(10, 11); // RX, TX
	//HardwareSerial & espSerial = Serial;

	//

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	# September 2013
	# by Matthew Bordignon, @bordignon on Twitter
	#
	# Simple Python script (v2.7x) that subscribes to a MQTT broker topic and inserts the topic into a mysql database
	# This is designed for the http://mqttitude.org/ project backend
	#

	import MySQLdb
	import mosquitto

	#!/bin/bash

	#########################################################################
	# #
	# #
	# NATO String converter #
	# #
	# Description: converts string (first parameter given) #
	# to NATO phonetics-alphabet #
	# #

	#!/usr/bin/perl -w

	# Fetches BOM.gov.au radar images giving us a local mirror, including historical
	# data.
	#
	# Radar images are updated every 10 minutes, but the BOM only keep the last
	# hour and 10 minutes worth of radar images on their FTP server. With this in
	# mind I would recommend running this script anywhere from minutely to hourly.
	#
	# This script is licensed CC0 by Andrew Harvey <[email protected]>

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	# bash 4.1.5(1) Linux Ubuntu 10.04 Date : 2019-01-02
	#
	# _______________\| noise : ambient Brown noise generator (cf. white noise).
	#
	# Usage: noise [minutes=59] [band-pass freq center=1786] [wave]
	# ^minutes can be any positive integer.
	# Command "noise 1" will display peak-level meter.
	#
	# Dependencies: play (from sox package)

dsmatthews

Anti-hype LLM reading list

Foundational Concepts

Pre-Transformer Models