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I'm planning to read Ilya Sutskever's 30

I recently stumbled upon a post in HackerNews that Sutskever (of AlexNet fame) in 2020 listed 30 papers saying that "If you really learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters today”. Based on some light googling, there has been some debate on which exact papers those were, but at least these three sources seem to provide the same list. With the last one claiming that this list was provided by one of Sutskever's colleagues at OpenAI. So this might be a reasonable approximation at least.

The list, copied from here, is listed below. Some of these are blog posts, other scientific articles and others are full text books. The list seemed cool at first glance so I'm planning to start reading it through in no particular order. In future separate posts I'll also try to post a few thoughts about each one, or groups of them, but this post will function as my main diary of my progress of reading the list through.

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