The short-sighted approach to mastering a topic is to dedicate all of your time and energy to study in depth what has been written about it so far. The long-sighted approach is to study a range of interconnected fields, and form your own mental models through relevant analogies.
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Could you recommend a book you’ve read recently?
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Anabasis Alexandri (Arrian)
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You probably will be interested in our project! https://www.kclsu.org/organisation/universalknowledge/ … Would love to have a chat with you about this!
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Build a foundation of knowledge rather than skipping to the end and reimplementing what someone else has done.
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I will read several books on machine learning, leadership, philosophy, languages, and math next year Zero preprints. Thanks for the advice.
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I've been rather liking books that are older than me. Every year a slightly smaller slice of "all the books" but I have a massive backlog :)
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Its a fast moving field though. So until books are updated, we rely on blog posts...and twitter
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So maybe it’s not wise to go to one of those “AI” schools? Although I don’t know much about what their curriculum is, it maybe a bit too narrow and biased towards certain ideas.
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I have personally found PhD theses to be really helpful since they synthesize the field from it's origins and sometimes in cross disciplinary ways. Much different than papers.
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@HoddieOt any PhD theses in specific to recommend? Thanks - Show replies
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