Siva Kumar Siva7891

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

Comprehensions in Python the Jedi way

by Bjørn Friese

Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit.

-- The Zen of Python

I frequently deal with collections of things in the programs I write. Collections of droids, jedis, planets, lightsabers, starfighters, etc. When programming in Python, these collections of things are usually represented as lists, sets and dictionaries. Oftentimes, what I want to do with collections is to transform them in various ways. Comprehensions is a powerful syntax for doing just that. I use them extensively, and it's one of the things that keep me coming back to Python. Let me show you a few examples of the incredible usefulness of comprehensions.

LambdaContext

Here is the raw output from examining the Python LambdaContext context object in a AWS Lambda function when called from a CloudFormation stack. More information on the context object can be found here : http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/python-context-object.html

LambdaContext object : `print(context)`

<__main__.LambdaContext object at 0x7fd706780710>

LambdaContext vars : `vars(context)`

	# Python logger in AWS Lambda has a preset format. To change the format of the logging statement,
	# remove the logging handler & add a new handler with the required format

	import logging
	import sys

	def setup_logging():
	logger = logging.getLogger()
	for h in logger.handlers:
	logger.removeHandler(h)

	/**
	* The onOpen function runs automatically when the Google Docs document is
	* opened. Use it to add custom menus to Google Docs that allow the user to run
	* custom scripts. For more information, please consult the following two
	* resources.
	*
	* Extending Google Docs developer guide:
	* https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/docs
	*
	* Document service reference documentation:

	''' quick example showing how to attach a pdf to multipart messages
	and then send them from SES via boto
	'''

	from email.mime.text import MIMEText
	from email.mime.application import MIMEApplication
	from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart

	import boto