Ilya Sutskever's 30 Papers vs Tail Panic

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

Tail Panic: command animals on a 25×25 grid to chase and escape. Write onFrame scripts, join bot matches and watch 3D replays.

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 Tail Panic

Tail Panic: command animals on a 25×25 grid to chase and escape. Write onFrame scripts, join bot matches and watch 3D replays. Your logic runs in a sandbox and drives every step on the grid. Chasers capture adjacent evaders; evaders use grass vision, portals and skills to buy time. Blink, speed, charge, stealth, resource management is the core strategy. Blink, speed, charge, stealth, each with its own use. 3 Submit & battle Upload scripts, run training matches against built-in bots, or queue ranked matches.