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Chip Huyen

AI engineer and ML systems educator

An AI engineer and computer scientist who developed ML tools at NVIDIA and taught machine learning systems at Stanford.

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Books Chip Huyen recommends

5 books, each linked to the source where Chip Huyen recommended it.

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The Society of Mind

by Marvin Minsky

Huyen includes this work among her favorite engineering books and provides a positive personal review in her own reader-facing list.

Recommended · Wording not verified Source: Chip Huyen

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Books that made me think (as an engineer)

Personal engineering reading list. The Society of Mind is misspelled as Minds in the source; its canonical title is independently verified. Recommendations are separate from Huyen’s authored books.

This text documents what the source says, but it is not verified as a word-for-word quote.

Chip Huyen · 2022-12-27 · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Personal favorite engineering books

Huyen includes this work among her favorite engineering books and provides a positive personal review in her own reader-facing list.

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Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life

by John H. Miller, Scott E. Page

Huyen includes this work among her favorite engineering books and provides a positive personal review in her own reader-facing list.

Recommended · Wording not verified Source: Chip Huyen

Evidence details

Books that made me think (as an engineer)

Personal engineering reading list. The Society of Mind is misspelled as Minds in the source; its canonical title is independently verified. Recommendations are separate from Huyen’s authored books.

This text documents what the source says, but it is not verified as a word-for-word quote.

Chip Huyen · 2022-12-27 · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Personal favorite engineering books

Huyen includes this work among her favorite engineering books and provides a positive personal review in her own reader-facing list.

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How Not to Be Wrong

by Jordan Ellenberg · 2014

Huyen includes this work among her favorite engineering books and provides a positive personal review in her own reader-facing list.

Recommended · Wording not verified Source: Chip Huyen

Evidence details

Books that made me think (as an engineer)

Personal engineering reading list. The Society of Mind is misspelled as Minds in the source; its canonical title is independently verified. Recommendations are separate from Huyen’s authored books.

This text documents what the source says, but it is not verified as a word-for-word quote.

Chip Huyen · 2022-12-27 · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Personal favorite engineering books

Huyen includes this work among her favorite engineering books and provides a positive personal review in her own reader-facing list.

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The Design of Everyday Things

by Don Norman

Huyen includes this work among her favorite engineering books and provides a positive personal review in her own reader-facing list.

Recommended · Wording not verified Source: Chip Huyen

Evidence details

Books that made me think (as an engineer)

Personal engineering reading list. The Society of Mind is misspelled as Minds in the source; its canonical title is independently verified. Recommendations are separate from Huyen’s authored books.

This text documents what the source says, but it is not verified as a word-for-word quote.

Chip Huyen · 2022-12-27 · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Personal favorite engineering books

Huyen includes this work among her favorite engineering books and provides a positive personal review in her own reader-facing list.

Audible

Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)

by Sebastian Raschka · 2024

This is the guide you need!

Recommended · Exact quote Source: Manning

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Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)

Publisher-hosted attributed endorsement with explicit reader-facing instruction; the endorsement date is not given. Huyen is the recommender; Raschka is the author.

The quote is taken word for word from the source.

Manning · undated publisher endorsement · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Publisher-hosted attributed endorsement

Manning attributes reader-facing guidance to Chip Huyen in its endorsements for this 2024 book.

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