Reading Lists

What I'm reading now, books I've finished, papers I've explored, and patents I've authored.

"I would rather read the best 100 books over and over again until I absorb them rather than read all the books"

Currently Reading

Genius Makers

Genius Makers

Cade Metz

The inside story of the mavericks who brought AI from the fringes of academia to the forefront of modern technology, reshaping our world.

Progress 50%
The 5 Types of Wealth

The 5 Types of Wealth

Sahil Bloom

A guide to creating a life of meaning, fulfillment, and impact by building wealth across five dimensions: time, social, mental, physical, and financial.

Progress 35%

Books I've Read

White Papers I've Read

Machine Learning

Attention Is All You Need

Vaswani et al.

The landmark paper introducing the Transformer architecture that revolutionized NLP and became the foundation for modern LLMs.

Key Takeaways

  • โ€ข Self-attention mechanisms can replace recurrence entirely
  • โ€ข Multi-head attention allows the model to attend to different representation subspaces
  • โ€ข Positional encodings are essential for sequence understanding without recurrence
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Patents I'm Part Of

published US 2021/0173867 A1

Method and System for Interactive Search Indexing

Inventors: Madhusudhan Kakurala

Filed: Dec 3, 2020 ยท Published: Jun 10, 2021

A method and system for interactive search indexing that enables efficient indexing and retrieval of data in distributed computing environments. The system provides real-time search capabilities with optimized index structures for improved query performance.