Wait But Why: The AI Revolution waitbutwhy.com ↗

A 2015 long-form essay series by Tim Urban on artificial intelligence and superintelligence.

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Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI
theguardian.com · 9 days ago
Cited as a prescient framing of where AI is heading beyond LLMs.

Why Machines Learn ↗Learning & books
A book by Anil Ananthaswamy explaining the math behind modern AI.
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Life 3.0 ↗Learning & books
A book by Max Tegmark about the future of artificial intelligence and its impact on society.
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The Collision ↗Learning & books
A book by Eric C. So on AI and human skill.
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Understanding Deep Learning ↗Learning & books
A deep learning textbook by Simon Prince with theory and programming exercises.
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Deep Learning: Foundations and Concepts ↗Learning & books
A deep learning textbook by Christopher Bishop and Hugh Bishop.
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The Little Book of Deep Learning ↗Learning & books
A compact free book by François Fleuret covering deep learning foundations.
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Professional Linux Kernel Architecture ↗Learning & books
A book by Wolfgang Mauerer describing Linux kernel internals.
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Logic for Programmers ↗Learning & books
Hillel Wayne's book on applying logic to programming.
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Careless People ↗
A memoir by former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams about the company's leadership.
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The Expanse ↗
A science fiction novel series later adapted for television.
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The Mythical Man-Month ↗
Fred Brooks' classic book of essays on software project management.
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Wikipedia
A free collaborative online encyclopedia.
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Blindsight ↗
A science fiction novel by Peter Watts that explores consciousness and perception.
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years ↗
A book by David Graeber on the history of debt, credit and money.
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Diátaxis ↗
A framework for organising technical documentation into tutorials, how-tos, reference and explanation.
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Forvo ↗
A website with crowdsourced audio recordings of how native speakers pronounce words.
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From Bauhaus to Our House ↗
Tom Wolfe's critique of modernist architecture.
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How Complex Systems Fail ↗
A short essay by Richard Cook on the nature of failure in complex systems.
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Superintelligence ↗
Nick Bostrom's book on the risks of advanced artificial intelligence.
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The Big Short ↗
A 2015 film about the 2008 housing and credit collapse.
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