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Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

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Re: Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

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post #15

The headline belies the scope of this task. If you click in to see what these are: - one is a full course in convolutional neural networks https://cs231n.github.io/ - one is a 500 page text book https://www.lirmm.fr/~ashen/kolmbook-eng-scan.pdf - another one is an 80 page text book (?) https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0406077 and so on. I would guess it is possible to go through this list if you make it your full time job…

Reportedly, Carmack did it an a week by locking himself in an hotel room

Re: Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

#22
Some time ago I also copied the list at https://punkx.org/jackdoe/30.html so its easier to wget (e.g. get all the arxiv pdfs)

        wget -A .pdf -r -H -D arxiv.org -nd https://punkx.org/jackdoe/30.html
A friend and me used pdfunite to join them in one pdf and then printed them in a local printing shop in good a4 paper https://www.printenbind.nl/ as a spiral book, the end result is very good (also there is space around the pages so that its easy to take notes).

Keep in mind there is no confirmation that this is the actual list.

Re: Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

#23
post #15

The headline belies the scope of this task. If you click in to see what these are: - one is a full course in convolutional neural networks https://cs231n.github.io/ - one is a 500 page text book https://www.lirmm.fr/~ashen/kolmbook-eng-scan.pdf - another one is an 80 page text book (?) https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0406077 and so on. I would guess it is possible to go through this list if you make it your full time job…

Reportedly, Carmack did it an a week by locking himself in an hotel room

Ah, the freedoms of not having any other responsibilities.

Re: Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

#24
post #8
post #4

This is just someone’s bookmarks folder. Where’s the proof these were recommended by Ilya? This looks like a subtle way to advertise a VC funded web browser.

Carmack has more or less confirmed it. https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1622673143469858816

That confirms the existence of a list, there’s zero indication it’s this list.

Re: Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

#25
post #15

The headline belies the scope of this task. If you click in to see what these are: - one is a full course in convolutional neural networks https://cs231n.github.io/ - one is a 500 page text book https://www.lirmm.fr/~ashen/kolmbook-eng-scan.pdf - another one is an 80 page text book (?) https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0406077 and so on. I would guess it is possible to go through this list if you make it your full time job…

Reportedly, Carmack did it an a week by locking himself in an hotel room

Tony Stark was able to do it in a cave with a box of scraps.

Re: Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

#26
post #7

Reading 30 studies does not mean "learned and understood". Especially if you start from zero.

Disagree, I’ve already changed my title to “ML professional” on linked in. Aside from the odd hallucination, I’m indistinguishable from an expert to the average hiring team.

You have to use "Certified ML professional" or noone is going to take you seriously.

Re: Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

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Some time ago I also copied the list at https://punkx.org/jackdoe/30.html so its easier to wget (e.g. get all the arxiv pdfs) wget -A .pdf -r -H -D arxiv.org -nd https://punkx.org/jackdoe/30.html A friend and me used pdfunite to join them in one pdf and then printed them in a local printing shop in good a4 paper https://www.printenbind.nl/ as a spiral book, the end result is very good (also there is space around the…

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Re: Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

#28
post #15

The headline belies the scope of this task. If you click in to see what these are: - one is a full course in convolutional neural networks https://cs231n.github.io/ - one is a 500 page text book https://www.lirmm.fr/~ashen/kolmbook-eng-scan.pdf - another one is an 80 page text book (?) https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0406077 and so on. I would guess it is possible to go through this list if you make it your full time job…

I wasn't aware of the Kolmogorov complexity book; it seems great, I'll be devouring this soon!

Re: Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

#29
post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reportedly, Carmack did it an a week by locking himself in an hotel room

Ah, the freedoms of not having any other responsibilities.

If you can't take a single week off of work during an entire year in order to advance your career, then you're satisfied with your current one.

There is no need to direct negativity toward others for making time to learn. Carmack is in this position today because of such work ethic, not in spite of it.

Re: Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

#30

Some time ago I also copied the list at https://punkx.org/jackdoe/30.html so its easier to wget (e.g. get all the arxiv pdfs) wget -A .pdf -r -H -D arxiv.org -nd https://punkx.org/jackdoe/30.html A friend and me used pdfunite to join them in one pdf and then printed them in a local printing shop in good a4 paper https://www.printenbind.nl/ as a spiral book, the end result is very good (also there is space around the…

How many pages is the spiral book?
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