Yury Antonov yantonov

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

Overview

Internet connection and DNS routing are broken from WSL2 instances, when some VPNs are active.

The root cause seems to be that WSL2 and the VPN use the same IP address block, and the VPN routing clobbers WSL2's network routing.

This problem is tracked in multiple microsoft/WSL issues including, but not limited to:

Permanent WSL DNS Fix (WSL 2.2.1+)

If you're encountering ping github.com failing inside WSL with a Temporary failure in name resolution, you're not alone — this has been a long-standing issue, especially when using VPNs or corporate networks.

This issue is now fixed robustly with DNS tunneling, which preserves dynamic DNS behavior and avoids limitations like WSL’s former hard cap of 3 DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf.

DNS tunneling is enabled by default in WSL version 2.2.1 and later, meaning that if you're still seeing DNS resolution issues, the first and most effective fix is simply to upgrade WSL. Upgrading WSL updates the WSL platform itself, but does not affect your installed Linux distributions, apps, or files.

To upgrade WSL, follow these steps,

Slides

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3p0nbjd3a77zq34/RxJs%20from%200%20to%200.99.pdf?dl=0

Documentation

Migration Guide

Rich Already Answered That!

A list of commonly asked questions, design decisions, reasons why Clojure is the way it is as they were answered directly by Rich (even when from many years ago, those answers are pretty much valid today!). Feel free to point friends and colleagues here next time they ask (again). Answers are pasted verbatim (I've made small adjustments for readibility, but never changed a sentence) from mailing lists, articles, chats.

How to use:

The link in the table of content jumps at the copy of the answer on this page.
The link on the answer itself points back at the original post.

Table of Content

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?

Abramsky and Jung "Domain Theory" http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axj/pub/papers/handy1.pdf
Appel, Andrew "Modern Compiler Implementation in ML"
Cousot, Patrick "Abstract Interpretation Based Formal Methods and Future Challenges" http://www.di.ens.fr/~cousot/publications.www/Cousot-LNCS2000-sv-sb.pdf
Darais, Might, and Van Horn "Galois Transformers and Modular Abstract Interpreters" http://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.3962v1.pdf
Davey and Priestley, "Introduction To Lattices and Order"
Friedman and Mendhekar, "Using an Abstracted Interpreter to Understand Abstract Interpretation" http://www.cs.indiana.*du/l/www/classes/b621/abiall.pdf
Friedman and Wand, "Essentials of Programming Languages"
Jones and Nielson, "Abstract Interpretation: a Semantics-Based Tool for Program Analysis" http://se.inf.ethz.ch/courses/2014b_fall/sv/reading/jones-nielson.pdf
Livshits, Sridharan, Smaragdakis, et. al. "In Defense of Soundiness: A Manifesto" http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~smaragd/Soundiness-CACM.pdf
Might, Matt "Writing an inte

Recent improvements to the ClojureScript compiler have greatly simplified setting up development versus production outputs.

This example uses Figwheel as something that you want to exclude for production, but the pattern is general.

With this simple setup you only need one html file/view and it will work for developement and production.

	;; Now, replace the loop by more telling operations.

	(defn tarjan
	"Returns the strongly connected components of a graph specified by its nodes
	and a successor function succs from node to nodes.
	The used algorithm is Tarjan's one."
	[nodes succs]
	(letfn [(sc [env node]
	; env is a map from nodes to stack length or nil, nil means the node is known to belong to another SCC
	; there are two special keys: ::stack for the current stack and ::sccs for the current set of SCCs

	(ns net.cgrand.decay
	"Exponentially decaying lists. See http://awelonblue.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/exponential-decay-of-history-improved/
	for background and http://clj-me.cgrand.net/2013/02/12/decaying-lists-log-scale-for-lists/ for documentation")

	;; PRNG, formulas straight from java.util.Random javadoc
	(defn- seed ^long [^long n]
	(bit-and (unchecked-multiply n 0x5DEECE66D)
	(unchecked-dec (bit-shift-left 1 48))))

	(defn- next-seed ^long [^long seed]