dejan-stankovic

Purpose

Bootstrap knowledge of LLMs ASAP. With a bias/focus to GPT.

Avoid being a link dump. Try to provide only valuable well tuned information.

Prelude

Neural network links before starting with transformers.

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like Unreal or Unity for their games (or that's what lot of people think) because d

Software Transactional Memory in C++: pure functional approach (Tutorial)

In this article I’ll tell you about my pure functional library for Software Transactional Memory (STM) that I’ve built in C++. I adopted some advanced functional programming concepts that make it composable and convenient to use. Its implementation is rather small and robust, which differentiates the library from competitors. Let’s discuss what STM is and how to use it.

Intro
Links
Software Transactional Memory
STM basics
Composable transactions
Dining Philosophers: The task

Rust in Large Organizations

Initially taken by Niko Matsakis and lightly edited by Ryan Levick

Agenda

Introductions
Cargo inside large build systems
FFI
Foundations and financial support

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
- Who is going to use it?
- How are they going to use it?

Here are the steps to installing and setting up GDB on Mac OS Sierra/High Sierra. Run brew install gdb. On starting gdb, you will get the following error:

Unable to find Mach task port for process-id 2133: (os/kern) failure (0x5).
 (please check gdb is codesigned - see taskgated(8))

To fix this error, follow the following steps:

Installing memcached on Mac with Homebrew and Lunchy

This is a quick guide for installing memcached on a Mac with Homebrew, and starting and stopping it with Lunchy. I hope this tutorial will get your memcached up and running in no time.

Step 1 — Install Homebrew

Installing Homebrew is super easy. Just paste this in your terminal —

$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"

Install MySQL on macOS Sierra

This procedure explains how to install MySQL using Homebrew on macOS Sierra 10.12

Install Homebrew

Installing Homebrew is effortless, open Terminal and enter :
$ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
Note: Homebrew will download and install Command Line Tools for Xcode 8.0 as part of the installation process.

Install MySQL

At this time of writing, Homebrew has MySQL version 5.7.15 as default formulae in its main repository :

	#!/bin/sh

	### BEGIN INIT INFO
	# Provides: unicorn
	# Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog
	# Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog
	# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
	# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
	# Short-Description: starts the unicorn web server
	# Description: starts unicorn

	This example expects to have d3.min.js and d3.layout.min.js in the same directory as pie.js and pie_serv.js.

	Run with node pie_serv.js