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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

#31
After seeing this for the first time, I've build PdfToMp3 to listen to these papers. It has now evolved into ListenDock. Fun fact: PdfToMp3 existed before NotebookLM and I already had "overviews", but I called them teacher explanations.

Here is an example of a "Teacher Explanation" of the paper "Quantifying the Rise and Fall of Complexity in Closed Systems: The Coffee Automaton"

https://listendock.com/e/quantifying_the_rise_and_fall_of_co...

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

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post #25

Is there a way to download them all in one go?

https://colah.github.io/posts/2015-08-Understanding-LSTMs/ https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2012/hash/c399862d3b9d6b76c8436... https://papers.nips.cc/paper_files/paper/2012/file/c399862d3... https://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.03385 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.07122 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.05027 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.2329 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.02595 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.0473 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.03134 http…

Recommend importing into Zotero if currently not using it.

https://www.zotero.org/

https://www.zotero.org/support/adding_items_to_zotero#add_it...

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

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post #30

Someone posts on X, "These are Ilya’s 30 papers", gives no source, doesn't say where he got it from, and isn't connected to either Ilya or Carmack (Ilya gave him the list). Then someone vibe codes a barely usable website based on that, and it lands on the HN front page? Is this correct?

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

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post #30

Someone posts on X, "These are Ilya’s 30 papers", gives no source, doesn't say where he got it from, and isn't connected to either Ilya or Carmack (Ilya gave him the list). Then someone vibe codes a barely usable website based on that, and it lands on the HN front page? Is this correct?

they kind of mention the source on their website though

" rumoured list of papers that Ilya Sutskever gave to John Carmack. "

there is aslo manning book called illya list

https://www.manning.com/books/sutskevers-list

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

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post #30

Someone posts on X, "These are Ilya’s 30 papers", gives no source, doesn't say where he got it from, and isn't connected to either Ilya or Carmack (Ilya gave him the list). Then someone vibe codes a barely usable website based on that, and it lands on the HN front page? Is this correct?

Compiled resources for nerds are catnip. Hit that bookmark/upvote button to never get to it :)

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

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post #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.

The problem is the background is often times doing a wave motion across the screen.

Then the foreground content is doing an in/out undulation on top. So you’re seeing an undulating in/out in every possible direction + the background. And the foreground animations are all at the same time. So it’s not that we’re emphasizing any one thing. We’re emphasizing all of it.

The key with animations is in what they’re trying to draw attention to, the character of the movement, and the timing of it. You usually don’t want everything to equally animate at once.

I would: • Use background movement that also isn’t a “wave” • Stagger the timing of foreground animations so the main content is emphasized, followed by a pause, followed by the sidebars • Change the nature of the animations so they’re not doing the same essentially thing “zoom and pan” - so have the center zoom and pan, but do something different for the sides.

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

#38
So the styling and animation work looks really cool (when isolated), but they distract from the content itself, IMO.

I think it'd work better if you featured the animated background effect toward the top of the page and shifted toward static graphics (or much subtler animations) as the user scrolls.

And I don't think the zoom-out effect on the listing cards has the intended effect; I found myself wanting to get a better look at the papers and was a little disappointed/annoyed when they got smaller and harder to see as I pulled them into view.

The colors/shadows/layout all looks really nice, but I feel like the animations (as-is) ultimately detract from the experience rather than add to it. Thanks for sharing, though!

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

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post #19
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.

there's a way to connect kolmogorov complexity and occam's razor, which is solomonoff induction
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