@TheGlobalMinima: Ilya Sutskever’s reading list that he gave to John Carmack. “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters…
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Ilya Sutskever shared a reading list of influential machine learning papers with John Carmack, recommending them as essential knowledge covering 90% of what matters today.
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Ilya Sutskever’s reading list that he gave to John Carmack. “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters today”
A glorious list of papers ranging a decade, some of the most highly influential pieces of research that have led to this moment.
the first law of complexodynamics recurrent neural network regularization imageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks neural machine translation by jointly learning to align and translate … and more
Highly recommend going through these!!
Aarno (@TheGlobalMinima): Do yourself a favour
> go to https://t.co/TjQjISYnvn > find “most cited” list of papers > read the top 10 papers > one or two papers per week > read, read again, break it down, code it and write it back
Some of the most influential and transformative work of the last decade
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