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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

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post #11

I thought the actual 30 papers have never been disclosed. Do you have a source tying the recommendations back to Ilya, or did you come up with this list?

This list was made by some guy on twitter. https://x.com/keshavchan/status/1787861946173186062

It's unknown whether it has anything to do with Ilya Sutskever.

Re: 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format

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post #11

I thought the actual 30 papers have never been disclosed. Do you have a source tying the recommendations back to Ilya, or did you come up with this list?

I think someone on Twitter made it up. It was also 40 papers, not 30. https://dallasinnovates.com/exclusive-qa-john-carmacks-diffe...

Re: 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format

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Author 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.

I think it'd be interesting to hear what you think the goal of the site is.

Is it just rehosting the list, plus a reformatted copy of the papers? I was hoping you'd have at least annotated them with what you'd learned?

Re: 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format

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Why on earth would you deliberately choose to do whatever the fuck it is you did with the scroll and the animations for each paper when scrolling through the landing page? What are those animations supposed to be? I use firefox but I also visited on chrome, and the page is even more broken there. Scroll doesn't "take" unless I scroll hard enough, otherwise it bounces back. But on chrome, at least, it seems like the animation for each paper is clearer - it's supposed to be animating the scale of the paper as you scroll to it.. but it seems that your background animation is lagging everything so much it just doesn't work.

Re: 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format

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post #8

Kolmogorov Complexity looks interesting. It seems to formalize Occam’s Razor and the notion that intelligence = compression.

I wouldn't say so about Occam's Razor which is a heuristic.

The relationship between compression and intelligence, while not equal is definitely there. It looks like 3Blue1Brown is going to be doing some videos on this aspect.

Re: 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format

#20

Author 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.

An option to disable animation and show the paper links in a simple list would be helpful.
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