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• penguin_booze
  Ah, "intuition": one man's cheese is another man's rotten milk.
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  StilesCrisis
  The very first formula in the text, explicitly described as "as simple as possible," names its variable ê1 with no explanation given. I think this paper needs another pass.
• p1esk
  Wow, this book is surprisingly readable! I like how he starts from basics of linear algebra.
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  prideout
  My favorite little book is François Fleuret's: The Little Book of Deep Learning https://fleuret.org/francois/lbdl.html
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  nblgbg
  Are there any deep learning books with some problems to solve ?
• hasteg
  Another book which I would highly recommend for learning the math (or at least getting a very good idea of how it works) behind machine learning/transformers is "Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI" by Anil Ananthaswamy. I read it this past year and I found it was extremely good at pacing and building up intuition to the "how and why" of most important math concepts and discoveries in ML that have lead to where we are today. For those who don't already have a fairly deep understanding of linear algebra, statistics, and multivariate calculus, this book will be a far more gentle introduction yet still has enough rigor for you to come away with something.
• 3abiton
  Someone should add it to the hacker news curated paper list! Along side the video and book list.
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  amplifydev
  Interesting!Is there any one who have recommended books on the attention architecture specifically? I have been interested in that for a long time but never gotten around to actually studying it.
• anon
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  minimaxa
  Appreciated, I drop all of these into a RAG folder for when I need them later on in projects.8Gb of whitepapers/books...
• SlightGenius
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  Daklone
  We are recommending books for HackerBooks.org I see. Good, this is why I have come here also.Let me tell you about one of the greatest book series of our generation: Dungeon Crawler Carl, By Matt Dinnimanhttps://mattdinniman.com/books/From the Dust jacket: The apocalypse will be televised!You know what’s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. And you know what’s worse than that? An alien invasion, the destruction of all man-made structures on Earth, and the systematic exploitation of all the survivors for a sadistic intergalactic game show. That’s what. READ MOREJoin Coast Guard vet Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut, as they try to survive the end of the world—or just get to the next level—in a video game–like, trap-filled fantasy dungeon. A dungeon that’s actually the set of a reality television show with countless viewers across the galaxy. Exploding goblins. Magical potions. Deadly, drug-dealing llamas. This ain’t your ordinary game show.Welcome, Crawler. Welcome to the Dungeon. Survival is optional. Keeping the viewers entertained is not.Published sept 21, 2020 RePublished Aug 27, 2024