Ilya Sutskever's 30 Papers vs Traceseal

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

Verifiable receipts, ground-truth verification and replayable governance for AI agent work. Cryptographic proof of what your agent did, verifiable by anyone.

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 Traceseal

Verifiable receipts, ground-truth verification and replayable governance for AI agent work. Cryptographic proof of what your agent did, verifiable by anyone. Agents are doing real work, writing code, moving money, touching production. Traceseal is the accountability layer underneath: prove what ran, verify it against ground truth, replay it under governance. Attestation goes beyond "it ran": commands re-execute inside a kernel-namespace sandbox, and forbidden actions are enforced by the sandbox itself, not merely observed.