Author here. First year CS student at Trinity College Dublin. I Built this because when I was getting into reading research papers I ended up burning a ton of my Claude usage asking questions other people have probably already asked. The website is just a side project and definitely a WIP. Happy to answer questions or take PRs on GitHub.

Main page UX is terrible. If you go for quirky, fine, but I would not want to use it.

I was confused for a minute, I thought this was "top 30 papers by Ilya" and was then wondering why "Quantifying the Rise and Fall of Complexity in Closed Systems: The Coffee Automaton" is on the list.

> In additition, even though I have read the vast majority of the papers featured on the website, I have not read through each of the website's versions end to end.

Website's versions, as in - the actual text or the "explanations"? Either way this is a big red flag.

Nice presentation of the list!

I'd recommend watching a few of his talks/podcasts before during reading these to get the overview and how all the bits in these works tie together.

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutskever

https://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/ilya-sutskever-openai-2023...

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutskever-2

Kolmogorov Complexity looks interesting. It seems to formalize Occam’s Razor and the notion that intelligence = compression.

The formatting of the articles on this website is bad. I've opened the first one and all the LaTeX formulas are messed up. The subscripts and superscripts are all flattened rendering the math hard to comprehend. Did the author actually try to read any of the articles?

>∏ plocal(x|z) = i p(xi|z,xWindowAround(i))

Images and tables are not rendered at all. What is the point of this? Just keep the links to arxiv and leave it at that, otherwise render the articles properly

I thought the actual 30 papers have never been disclosed. Do you have a source tying the recommendations back to Ilya, or did you come up with this list?

Is there a way to download them all in one go?

I wish this were organized according to suggested/logical reading order. For example, the paper introducing the attention mechanism probably ought to precede "attention is all you need".

> "beginner friendly format" > looks inside > math

Why on earth would you deliberately choose to do whatever the fuck it is you did with the scroll and the animations for each paper when scrolling through the landing page? What are those animations supposed to be? I use firefox but I also visited on chrome, and the page is even more broken there. Scroll doesn't "take" unless I scroll hard enough, otherwise it bounces back. But on chrome, at least, it seems like the animation for each paper is clearer - it's supposed to be animating the scale of the paper as you scroll to it.. but it seems that your background animation is lagging everything so much it just doesn't work.

Is this meant to be read in order?