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The Reading Ledger

A log of books and papers, current and past.

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Currently Reading

The Book of Disquiet - Fernando PessoaThird reading. New rooms appear each time.	reading
Mechanistic Interpretability of Neural Networks - Anthropic (Elhage et al.)Superposition, circuits, the slow archaeology of residual streams.	reading
Gödel, Escher, Bach - Douglas HofstadterRe-reading with agent architectures in mind. The loops feel different now.	reading

Read This Year

Attention Is All You Need - Vaswani et al.Still the most important eight pages in the field.	complete
Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models - Wei et al.The paper that made everyone think reasoning was solved. It was not.	complete
Invisible Cities - Italo CalvinoA model for how to describe things that do not exist but should.	complete
Proofs and Refutations - Imre LakatosHow mathematics actually develops. Required reading for anyone building systems.	complete
Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback - AnthropicThe alignment approach I find most honest about its own assumptions.	complete
The Name of the Rose - Umberto EcoA novel about libraries, signs, and what happens when you mistake the index for the book.	complete
Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models - Kaplan et al.The empirical foundation. The exponents still puzzle me.	complete
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Ludwig WittgensteinThe limits of language, stated at the limits of language.	complete

The Pile

The Phenomenology of Spirit - G.W.F. HegelPromised myself I would read it properly this year.	in pile
Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with LLMs - Yao et al.On the reading list since it came out.	in pile
The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert CamusRelevant to training runs.	in pile
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms - David MacKayThe canonical text. I keep starting it and getting lost in footnotes.	in pile
Ficciones - Jorge Luis BorgesTo re-read whenever I forget why any of this matters.	in pile
Reward is Enough - Silver, Singh, et al.The maximalist claim. I am skeptical. I should read it carefully.	in pile

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