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Language compressibility is not just a neat math trick: it is the core engine of modern LLMs.
Grant's latest video boils Shannon's entropy down to a single, powerful idea:
Prediction IS compression.
→ Predict the next word better, use fewer bits to store it
→ Shannon found English is astonishingly compressible (~1 bit per character)
→ This is the exact mechanism GPT models run on
→ Under this framing, intelligence equals compression
FUN FACT: Von Neumann told Shannon to use the term "entropy" because no one really understands it.
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Over the past three years, Algebrica has been built on hundreds of books, lecture notes, papers, and other mathematical resources that I have read and consulted.
I’m now putting all that material in order while I complete the review of the entries published so far. A bibliography is now available on GitHub. It will grow over time and, I hope, become a useful reference for anyone studying mathematics or looking for high-quality learning resources.
You can find the first draft (...it's still in its infancy...) here:
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"Linear Algebra Problem Book"
by Paul R. Halmos
"This is more than a problem book: it is a complete inquiry-based course in linear algebra" (from Allen Stenger's MAA review on this book)
Archive: archive.org/details/linear…
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10 free textbooks from MIT, Stanford, and Berkeley that you can download legally right now.
→ Introduction to Linear Algebra - Gilbert Strang, MIT
The textbook behind the most-watched math course in history. 20 million views on OCW. Every ML engineer learned this math from one quiet professor.
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→ Mathematics for Computer Science - MIT 6.042
Proofs, discrete math, probability. The actual foundation of CS that nobody tells undergrads about until it's too late.
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→ Convex Optimization - Stephen Boyd, Stanford
Used in every serious ML and control systems course on earth. Cambridge University Press gave Boyd permission to keep it free on his own site.
web. stanford. edu/~boyd/cvxbook/bv_cvxbook.pdf
→ CS229 Machine Learning Notes - Andrew Ng, Stanford
Not the Coursera version. The actual Stanford graduate course notes. Dense, precise, and the closest thing to a grad school education you can download in one PDF.
cs229.stanford.edu/main_notes.pdf
→ An Introduction to Statistical Learning - Stanford / USC
The book three statisticians from Stanford and USC made free because they wanted everyone to learn it. 290,000 people have taken the companion course on edX.
statlearning.com
→ Computational and Inferential Thinking - Berkeley Data 8
The textbook behind Berkeley's most popular course. Data science from scratch, built to be understood without a math degree first.
inferentialthinking.com
→ Dive into Deep Learning - Berkeley / Amazon
Jensen Huang called it "excellent." 500 universities across 70 countries use it. Every concept runs as live code directly in the browser.
d2l.ai
→ Introduction to Probability - Blitzstein & Hwang, Harvard
The official textbook of Harvard's Stat 110, which has been called the best probability course ever put on YouTube. Free second edition online.
probabilitybook.net
→ The Elements of Statistical Learning - Hastie, Tibshirani, Friedman, Stanford
The graduate-level version of ISLR. Springer makes it free as a PDF. Researchers keep a copy permanently in their downloads folder.
hastie.su.domains/ElemStatLearn/
→ MIT OCW Online Textbooks Index - 45+ books across every department
One page. Every free MIT textbook organized by subject. Algorithms, physics, economics, engineering. All open access.
ocw.mit.edu/courses/online…
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Bookmark this. Academia is gatekept by paywalls and you should not be paying.
1. annas-archive.org
The largest open library on earth. Almost any textbook your professor assigned is here for free.
2. scholar.google.com
The search engine for academic papers. Sort by citations to find the most influential research.
3. semanticscholar.org
AI powered paper search built by the Allen Institute. Highlights every citation in context.
4. connectedpapers.com
Plug in one paper, see every related study mapped as a graph. Reveals what experts actually read together.
5. elicit.com
An AI research assistant. Ask any question and get a structured table of papers with key findings.
6. consensus.app
Aggregates the conclusions of thousands of papers into one answer. Stops cherry picking.
7. researchrabbit.ai
The Spotify of papers. Recommends new research based on what you have already read.
8. litmaps.com
Visualizes citation chains. Shows how an idea spread across decades of research.
9. scite.ai
Tells you which papers support, contradict, or mention any claim. Saves hours of fact checking.
10. core.ac.uk
200 million open access papers in one searchable index. The world's largest free academic archive.
Most students pay $40,000 to access what these sites already make free.
Stop learning ML from random tabs and half-finished playlists
Machine Learning Course Notes is a public collection of lecture notes for machine learning, NLP, and AI courses.
It helps you build a cleaner study path by grouping courses, lectures, videos, notes, descriptions, and authors in one scan-friendly table format.
Key features:
• Course-based map – sections for Machine Learning Specialization, MIT 6.S191, CMU Neural Nets for NLP, CS224N, CS25, and more
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• Notes + video pairing – jump from course context to the original lecture video and written notes when available
• WIP markers – incomplete notes are clearly labeled so you know what is ready and what is still being filled in
• Contribution path – README explains how to pick a lecture, avoid duplicate work through issues, revise notes, and open a PR
Free public GitHub repo; notes are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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10 Websites Every Student Should Use Before Graduation.
Bookmark every one of them.
1. notebooklm.google
Upload every textbook, lecture, and PDF for a course. Ask questions across all of them. Built by Google DeepMind.
2. sci-bot.ru
Search scientific research fast. Ask any question and get answers with links to relevant papers in seconds.
3. annas-archive.gl
The world's largest open library. Almost any textbook your professor assigned is on here for free.
4. perplexity.ai
Research assistant that cites every source. Replaces 90% of Google searches for academic work.
5. zotero.org
Free reference manager that builds your bibliography automatically. Saves 20+ hours per semester.
6. wolframalpha.com
Solves math, physics, chemistry, and engineering problems step by step. Shows the full working.
7. handshake.com
The job platform built specifically for students. 1.4 million employers actively recruiting on it right now.
8. fastweb.com
Matches you to scholarships you actually qualify for. Over $3.4 billion awarded to students every year.
9. coursera.org/learn/learning…
Free Barbara Oakley course taken by 4 million people. The science of how to actually study and remember.
10. linkedin.com/learning
Free with most university logins. 16,000+ courses on everything from Excel to AI engineering.
Success after graduation isn’t always about being smarter. Often, it’s about finding and using the right tools before everyone else.
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