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The concluding learning-resources passage directs advanced readers to the book then being written. This 2015 guidance predates the final 2016 edition; it does not claim he endorsed a later revision or every book claim.

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Andrej Karpathy · 2015-10-25 · accessed 2026-10-02

Article · Original written source

The concluding learning-resources passage directs advanced readers to the book then being written. This 2015 guidance predates the final 2016 edition; it does not claim he endorsed a later revision or every book claim.

Existing catalog work. Recommendation predates 2016 publication; do not assert later-edition endorsement.

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Sebastian Raschka · undated · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Historical personal study-plan recommendations

Explicitly recommends the upcoming Deep Learning manuscript after ML/statistical foundations.

Hassabis described the book while discussing works that influenced how he thinks about minds and intelligence.

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YouTube · timestamp 22:56 · accessed 2026-06-17

Video · YouTube interview clip

Timestamped source link discovered from a public recommendation index and retained as the original video source URL.

The article reports Hassabis naming Richard Feynman's memoir as influential during his student years and recommending Feynman's books to students in a 2024 Nobel Prize interview context.

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The Times of India · 2026-03-18 · accessed 2026-06-20

Article · Reported Nobel interview recommendation

The article reports that Hassabis said Feynman's memoir influenced him as a student and quoted him recommending those books to students during a Nobel Prize interview in Stockholm.

Personal science-fiction reading recommendation; not a technical AI study assignment.

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Andrej Karpathy · undated; accessed 2026-10-05 · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Personal ranked science-fiction reviews

In his own ranked science-fiction reviews, Karpathy says he liked the book substantially more than its movie adaptation.

Personal science-fiction reading recommendation; not a technical AI study assignment.

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Andrej Karpathy · undated; accessed 2026-10-05 · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Personal ranked science-fiction reviews

In his own ranked science-fiction reviews, Karpathy explicitly identifies the collection as required reading.

In the conclusion of his 2015 article, Karpathy points beginners to Michael Nielsen’s tutorials. This is historical guidance about that work, not an endorsement of every later revision or a modern software setup.

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Andrej Karpathy · 2015-10-25 · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Original written source

The conclusion directs beginners to Michael Nielsen’s tutorials and links neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com. Nielsen’s own companion repository identifies the linked work as his book Neural Networks and Deep Learning. Recommendation wording here is a paraphrase, not a direct quote.

Personal science-fiction reading recommendation; not a technical AI study assignment.

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Andrej Karpathy · undated; accessed 2026-10-05 · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Personal ranked science-fiction reviews

In his own ranked science-fiction reviews, Karpathy describes its world-building as highly enjoyable.

His own list is sorted by recommendation and obscurity, not recommendation alone. Permutation City has positive simulation/artificial-life context. This is one undated list event; no rank or preferred edition is asserted.

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Andrej Karpathy · undated · accessed 2026-10-02

Article · Original written source

His own list is sorted by recommendation and obscurity, not recommendation alone. Permutation City has positive simulation/artificial-life context. This is one undated list event; no rank or preferred edition is asserted.

Personal science-fiction reading recommendation; not a technical AI study assignment.

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Andrej Karpathy · undated; accessed 2026-10-05 · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Personal ranked science-fiction reviews

In his own ranked science-fiction reviews, Karpathy calls it a thoroughly enjoyable read and praises its alien portrayal.

Personal science-fiction reading recommendation; not a technical AI study assignment.

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Andrej Karpathy · undated; accessed 2026-10-05 · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Personal ranked science-fiction reviews

In his own ranked science-fiction reviews, Karpathy explicitly identifies the collection as required reading.

2020 book strongly computer vision focused, no transformers/LLMs; requires Python; source says introductory for experienced practitioners.

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Sebastian Raschka · 2021-01-21 · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Personal book review

Original independent review says beginners may start with this book and experts may find chapter3 worthwhile; positive reader-facing verdict, without payment/review copy.

Historical 2020 print and then-current online book; source notes evolving contents. Do not describe current online edition as the endorsed edition.

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Sebastian Raschka · 2020-08-26 · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Personal book review

Original independent review explicitly recommends the book; declares no author affiliation or review copy.

Historical pre-2016 advice; source explicitly identifies first edition. Do not imply recommendation of later edition with additional coauthor.

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Sebastian Raschka · undated · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Historical personal study-plan recommendations

Original personal beginner curriculum explicitly recommends the following item, Introduction to Data Mining (First Edition, 2005).

Historical study-plan recommendation. The source citation lists 2012; the publisher dates the second edition to 2000. No edition/year is asserted for this work-level catalog record.

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Sebastian Raschka · undated · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Historical personal study-plan recommendations

Raschka suggests deepening statistical learning knowledge using one of three named books in a personal reading/study plan. This is an explicit reading-list context, not mere course bibliography.

Undated historical pre-2016 study plan; publisher verifies first edition2006, sole author Christopher M. Bishop.

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Sebastian Raschka · undated · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Historical personal study-plan recommendations

Raschka suggests deepening statistical learning knowledge using one of three named books in a personal reading/study plan. This is an explicit reading-list context, not mere course bibliography.

Historical personal study plan. Publisher confirms Hastie/Tibshirani/Friedman secondedition2009; no newer edition asserted.

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Sebastian Raschka · undated · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Historical personal study-plan recommendations

Raschka suggests deepening statistical learning knowledge using one of three named books in a personal reading/study plan. This is an explicit reading-list context, not mere course bibliography.

Work-level recommendation in a historical programming-learning essay; no endorsement of later editions or modern Python tooling is implied.

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Peter Norvig · undated; accessed 2026-10-05 · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Personal programming-reading recommendations

Norvig explicitly recommends this title in the Books and Other Resources appendix of his own essay.

Work-level recommendation in a historical programming-learning essay; no endorsement of later editions or modern Python tooling is implied.

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Peter Norvig · undated; accessed 2026-10-05 · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Personal programming-reading recommendations

Norvig explicitly recommends this title in the Books and Other Resources appendix of his own essay.

Work-level recommendation in a historical programming-learning essay; no endorsement of later editions or modern Python tooling is implied.

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Peter Norvig · undated; accessed 2026-10-05 · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Personal programming-reading recommendations

Norvig explicitly recommends this title in the Books and Other Resources appendix of his own essay.

Work-level recommendation in a historical programming-learning essay; no endorsement of later editions or modern Python tooling is implied.

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Peter Norvig · undated; accessed 2026-10-05 · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Personal programming-reading recommendations

Norvig explicitly recommends this title in the Books and Other Resources appendix of his own essay.

Hassabis linked to Game Changer while pointing readers toward a book about AlphaZero's chess discoveries.

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X · 2020-02-02 · accessed 2026-06-22

Social post · X post

The original X post was fetched through the public fxtwitter mirror during batch 57. Hassabis directly recommends checking out the Game Changer book for readers who want to learn more about AlphaZero.

New catalog work; conceptual AI safety, not a coding or technical ML tutorial. Historical promotional endorsement, date not asserted.

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Penguin Random House · undated · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Publisher-hosted attributed endorsement

Publisher-hosted attributed endorsement explicitly instructs readers.

Author-hosted endorsement, undated, April2020 book; do not imply endorsement of every updated PDF.

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Mathematics for Machine Learning authors · undated · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Author-hosted attributed endorsement

Official authors companion site Testimonies attributes explicit reader recommendation to Pieter Abbeel.

Author-hosted endorsement, undated, 2023 work; not a personal reading-list interview. Avoid endorsement of newer online revisions.

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Kevin P. Murphy · undated · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Author-hosted attributed endorsement

Attributed original endorsement explicitly recommends sequel to graduate CS students.

Abbeel personally recommends Joseph Williams’s writing guide when asked for a book recommendation; edition is unspecified. Scientific writing context, not an AI coding textbook.

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SuperDataScience · 2021-09-07; timestamp 01:11:40 · accessed 2026-10-05

Podcast · Original podcast transcript; book recommendation

Interviewer requests book recommendation; Abbeel at 01:11:40 says he will recommend a nontechnical book and explains at01:12:34 how Williams helped scientific writing.