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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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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.

Maria Hill: When did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics?

Tony Stark: Last night.

The Avengers (2012)

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

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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

If he could've done it in a week then he didn't really need to do it at all.

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

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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.

He posted it when this list was getting viral and acknowledged it without saying it's not the real one. I read it as a tacit confirmation at the time.

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…

How many pages is the spiral book?

360 pages, but also added the xLSTM paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.04517

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

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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.

What a strangely narrow way of looking at this.

Work isn’t the only responsibility.

What is the correlation between taking a week away from responsibilities - work, family, etc. - and job satisfaction?

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

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post #23

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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.

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

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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!

I will also. I heard a lecture on Kolmogorov complexity at an AI conference (perhaps AAAI IN Austin in 1984?) and it forever changed my view on complexity and patterns in data.

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

Carmack says the darndest things.
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