Food for thought

“It’s not about information anymore, it’s about curation.” Suzana Ilić (MLT)

Someone asked me why we're organizing DL workshops, since there's a ton of excellent online resources out there. And I think that's the problem. It's not about information anymore, it's about curation. We are drowning in blog posts, tutorials, courses, repos, docs, papers.

— Suzana Ilić (@suzatweet) August 27, 2019

Just an opinionated list of readings, talks, books, tools, projects, or whatever that provokes or gets the brain going 🧠

Essays, articles, or thoughts

1. The Bitter Lesson.- Rich Sutton (March 13, 2019). Simple ideas and things that scale are a very good idea.
2. Software 2.0.- Andrej Karpathy (November 11, 2017). Neural networks defines a “space” of potential programs.
3. The Hardware Lottery.- Sara Hooker (August, 2020). How does tooling choose which research ideas succeed and fail, and what does the future hold?
4. Stand out of our light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy.- James Williams (May, 2018). Your attention is valuable; it is an asset that a market is trying to exploit.
5. «Computational Thinking».- Jeannette M. Wing (March, 2006). A beautiful and poweful idea.
6. Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years.- Peter Norvig (1998).
7. Reflections on a decade of coding.- Jamie Brandon (September 22, 2021).
8. How can we develop transformative tools for thought?.- Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen (October, 2019).
9. The Pararable of the Parser.- Ross Girshick (June 17, 2024). What are the real tasks of computer vision?

Blogs

1. David Ha
2. Chris Olah
3. Red Blob Games from Amit Patel

Projects

1. Peter Norvig’s pytudes refering to Python programs, usually short, for perfecting particular programming skills.
2. Distill: non-traditional research artifacts.
3. Metacademy
4. The Roots of Progress: their mission is to establish a new philosophy of progress for the 21st century.

Communities

1. ML Collective: supporting open collaboration in machine learning research