[klunger]

The headline belies the scope of this task. If you click in to see what these are: - one is a full course in convolutional neural networks https://cs231n.github.io/ - one is a 500 page text book https://www.lirmm.fr/~ashen/kolmbook-eng-scan.pdf - another one is an 80 page text book (?) https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0406077

and so on.

I would guess it is possible to go through this list if you make it your full time job for a year or so. That might be worth it depending on your priorities. Regardless, it bears mentioning.

[admissionsguy]

> If you make it your full time job for a year or so

Sounds like a good MSc program

[sheepdestroyer]

Reportedly, Carmack did it an a week by locking himself in an hotel room

[seanhunter]

Tony Stark was able to do it in a cave with a box of scraps.

[jb1991]

Ah, the freedoms of not having any other responsibilities.

[mtlmtlmtlmtl]

If he really did it in a week, why hasn't anything come out of his AGI startup yet, two years later? Maybe it wasn't as easy as he seemed to imply, despite his towering intellect.

Anyone can read an absurd amount of text in a week. To absorb and understand it all is a different matter entirely.

Seems more likely to me that Carmack simply convinced himself he'd understood it all. He does seem to think very highly of himself.

[zyklu5]

If he could've done it in a week then he didn't really need to do it at all.

[belter]

Almost forgot about how Carmack is the one that will give the world AGI...Easy to take the eyes of the ball with all these OpenAI and Google distractions...

[Keyframe]

Carmack says the darndest things.

[indigoabstract]

How hard can it be? It's only 30 papers.

Maybe someone should ask Chuck Norris how long it took him. Who wants to go first?

[lemurien]

Did he say that? It’s not in the original interview: https://dallasinnovates.com/exclusive-qa-john-carmacks-diffe...

[sage76]

Must be a hell of a hotel room, I should visit.

[Xelaz]

FWIW, Ilya's recommendation for Kolmogorov book in the Arc viewer is "PAGE 434 onward", which lands on the last chapter "Algorithmic Statistics" (p.425 in the book). Appendix 1 starts on p.455 ...

[ykonstant]

I wasn't aware of the Kolmogorov complexity book; it seems great, I'll be devouring this soon!

[mark_l_watson]

I will also. I heard a lecture on Kolmogorov complexity at an AI conference (perhaps AAAI IN Austin in 1984?) and it forever changed my view on complexity and patterns in data.