30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format
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Re: 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format
#2Author here. First year CS student at Trinity College Dublin. I Built this because when I was getting into reading research papers I ended up burning a ton of my Claude usage asking questions other people have probably already asked. The website is just a side project and definitely a WIP. Happy to answer questions or take PRs on GitHub.
Re: 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format
#3Main page UX is terrible. If you go for quirky, fine, but I would not want to use it.
Re: 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format
#4Main page UX is terrible. If you go for quirky, fine, but I would not want to use it.
Indeed. I scoffed at your comment and went to the website. After scrolling a bit, I find myself having a mild headache and slight dizziness.
I would request the author to consider something that does not distract us from this educational and informative website ( I have bookmarked it ).
Re: 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format
#5I was confused for a minute, I thought this was "top 30 papers by Ilya" and was then wondering why "Quantifying the Rise and Fall of Complexity in Closed Systems: The Coffee Automaton" is on the list.
> In additition, even though I have read the vast majority of the papers featured on the website, I have not read through each of the website's versions end to end.
Website's versions, as in - the actual text or the "explanations"? Either way this is a big red flag.
Re: 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format
#6Nice presentation of the list!
I'd recommend watching a few of his talks/podcasts before during reading these to get the overview and how all the bits in these works tie together.
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutskever
https://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/ilya-sutskever-openai-2023...
Re: 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format
#7Main page UX is terrible. If you go for quirky, fine, but I would not want to use it.
Yes, normally wouldn't ever say anything, but I could even read the text things were just flying around. (On firefox)
Re: 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format
#8Kolmogorov Complexity looks interesting. It seems to formalize Occam’s Razor and the notion that intelligence = compression.
Re: 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format
#9The formatting of the articles on this website is bad. I've opened the first one and all the LaTeX formulas are messed up. The subscripts and superscripts are all flattened rendering the math hard to comprehend. Did the author actually try to read any of the articles?
>∏ plocal(x|z) = i p(xi|z,xWindowAround(i))
Images and tables are not rendered at all. What is the point of this? Just keep the links to arxiv and leave it at that, otherwise render the articles properly
Re: 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format
#10The formatting of the articles on this website is bad. I've opened the first one and all the LaTeX formulas are messed up. The subscripts and superscripts are all flattened rendering the math hard to comprehend. Did the author actually try to read any of the articles? >∏ plocal(x|z) = i p(xi|z,xWindowAround(i)) Images and tables are not rendered at all. What is the point of this? Just keep the links to arxiv and leav…
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