Ilya Sutskever's 30 Papers vs Margarita

Explore the deep learning reading list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack, with free audio explainers for AlexNet, ResNet, Transformers, scaling laws, and more.

Margarita is an agentic scripting tool where you write plain text scripts, with state, loops, and LLM calls, and run them against any model.

About Ilya Sutskever's 30 Papers

Explore the deep learning reading list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack, with free audio explainers for AlexNet, ResNet, Transformers, scaling laws, and more. These courses, books, and code-heavy pieces do not currently have a ListenDock audio episode. When legendary game programmer John Carmack decided to move into AI, he asked OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever what he should read. Ilya handed him a list of around thirty works and said that learning them would cover 90% of what matters in modern deep learning.

About Margarita

Margarita is an agentic scripting tool where you write plain text scripts, with state, loops, and LLM calls, and run them against any model. Margarita, Writing agents should be as easy as writing markdown. No more fighting with your prompt to make it follow your workflow steps. // These are variables @state score = 3 @state feedback = "" // This is Markdown. It is added to the Context Window // score gets substituted and score/feedback are set by the llm.