Quang Nguyen

On my shelf

Some books, blogs and videos I want to share, in the hope that they help someone.

  1. Books

  2. AI and maths

  3. Information Theory, Inference, and Learning AlgorithmsDavid MacKay

  4. Pattern Recognition and Machine LearningChristopher Bishop

  5. CausalityJudea Pearl

  6. SuperintelligenceNick Bostrom

  7. Deep LearningGoodfellow, Bengio and Courville

  8. Causal Inference in Statistics: A PrimerPearl, Glymour and Jewell

  9. Life 3.0Max Tegmark

  10. Reinforcement Learning: An IntroductionSutton and Barto

  11. Mathematics for Machine LearningDeisenroth, Faisal and Ong

  12. Science I grew up on

  13. A Brief History of TimeStephen Hawking

  14. Fermat’s Last TheoremSimon Singh

  15. The Universe in a NutshellStephen Hawking

  16. The Black Hole WarLeonard Susskind

  17. George’s Cosmic Treasure HuntLucy and Stephen Hawking

  18. For the inner self

  19. The AlchemistPaulo Coelho

  20. Good LuckÁlex Rovira and Fernando Trías de Bes

  21. SapiensYuval Noah Harari

  22. Homo DeusYuval Noah Harari

  23. Atomic HabitsJames Clear

  24. Blogs

  25. Attention and Augmented Recurrent Neural NetworksOlah and Carter, Distill

  26. Our journey through Y CombinatorHan Wang, Mintlify

  27. RL is even more information inefficient than you thoughtDwarkesh Patel

  28. The Adolescence of TechnologyDario Amodei

  29. Notes on Space GPUsDwarkesh Patel

  30. Towards self-driving codebasesWilson Lin, Cursor

  31. Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language ModelAnthropic

  32. The Rise and Fall of Agent CivilizationsDwarkesh Patel

  33. An Alien MindJakub Pachocki, OpenAI

  34. Videos

  35. Stanford Commencement addressTim Cook

  36. The Tipping Points of Climate Change — and Where We StandJohan Rockström, TED

  37. What Does the AI Boom Really Mean for Humanity?Hannah Fry, Bloomberg

  38. DoorDash CEO: Customer Obsession, Surviving Startup Death & Creating A New MarketTony Xu, Y Combinator

  39. The future of intelligenceDemis Hassabis, Google DeepMind

  40. How GPT, Claude, and Gemini are actually trained and servedReiner Pope, Dwarkesh Patel

    I really like this one, and I’d be an advocate for more videos like it. I’ve always been a fan of long, knowledge-dense formats, and I’ve long had a format like this in mind; Dwarkesh has done it. Maybe it’s also because I’m more of a visual learner.

  41. Something’s Happening to the Ozone HoleCleo Abram