nyx2d

software engineer with an interest in decentralization

reading list

here’s a (not so) curated list of what I’m currently reading, what I want to read, or what I have read and want to remember for future reference.

it’s in rough find order. I only title links where the context is impossible to glean from the URL alone.

to read

• Merkle Search Trees: Efficient State-Based CRDTs in Open Networks
• What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing

currently reading

• modeling CRDTs in Alloy - introduction and the importance of idempotence
• Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work

backburner

• Policy Gradient Algorithms
• A (Long) Peek into Reinforcement Learning
• Range-Based Set Reconciliation and Authenticated Set Representations
• https://gsd.di.uminho.pt/members/jop/pdfs/LPR07a.pdf
• Local Crypto-Tokens for Local Economics

read, want to remember

• https://mattweidner.com/2022/02/10/collaborative-data-design.html
• https://crdt.tech/implementations
• https://automerge.org/
• https://applied-langua.ge/software-and-anarchy.pdf
• http://docs.peachcloud.org/introduction.html
• The Annotated GPT-2
• Building a GPT-like Model from Scratch with Detailed Theory and Code Implementation
• Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models
• The Annotated Transformer
• https://blogs.newardassociates.com/blog/2023/you-want-modules-not-microservices.html
• https://deno.land/x/earthstar@v10.0.0/mod.ts
• https://martin.kleppmann.com/papers/bft-crdt-papoc22.pdf
• https://gitlab.com/cal-coop/netfarm/netfarm / https://cal-coop.gitlab.io/netfarm/documentation/Introduction.html
• https://p2panda.org/learn
• https://applied-langua.ge/posts/here-is-a-loud-announcement.html
• https://www.hyperhyperspace.org/whitepaper/
• https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/
• https://earthstar-project.org/get-started/how-it-works
• https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/
• https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/pub/guide-for-new-activitypub-implementers
• https://cabal.chat/
• https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/
• https://github.com/christianlundkvist/rebooting-the-web-of-trust
• https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo
• https://orbitdb.org/
• https://gun.eco/
• https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~petar/papers/maymounkov-kademlia-lncs.pdf
• https://hypercore-protocol.org/