Ilya Sutskever's 30 Papers vs The Ghost Report

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

The most-starred AI agent repos with no public commit signal in 90+ days. Stars measure past hype; liveness measures present reality. The gap is the story.

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 The Ghost Report

The most-starred AI agent repos with no public commit signal in 90+ days. Stars measure past hype; liveness measures present reality. The gap is the story. GitHub stars measure how much hype an agent once had. These are the most-starred agent repos we index that have shown no public commit signal in 90 + days, past popularity, present silence. Stars are historical and never decay, which is exactly why they make a poor liveness signal on their own.