I love how that site offers a phone-formatted PDF as an option. How thoughtful!
replyYou may enjoy the reflow feature on Koreader. It fits a pdfs content into a screenwidth single column layout. That text is also zoomable.
replyi got duo to increase my reading.
replyIs it working out well for tech pdf's and books? Once I saw the form factor I realized it would be better than an iPad (less heavy, better battery) and that is the use case I am looking at. Might wait till v2.
replyFrom what I understand the iPad mini weighs the same with a slightly larger screen. Has their matte display option.
replyI have big pockets so for me it’s probably pocketable. But I still would have a phone. So I’ve got a duo on order with a year lease so I’m not stuck if I don’t think it’s great.
I have to confess to considering a mini with cellular instead of a phone altogether though.
My old crappy eyes need big screens for this. I have one on order. I’m ambivilating over the screen crack issue.
replyMy full stack JS jockey buddy studied this in the nascent days of LLMs to prep for an interview and is now generationally wealthy. Sliding doors moment for sure...
replyI'd note that the Fleuret books gives the foundation for basic deep learning whereas the OP seems to give the necessary foundations for Transformers and related machinery. These later addition what is now "AI" are in total at least as complicated as the original deep learning concepts. Not that just learning basic neural networks but the two book don't appear to cover the same ground.
replyOnly had a quick skim, but looks like the content of this book has very little to do with transformers. Might be more relevant for diffusion models (image/video generation) though.
replyIt's a nice treatment of the subject, but I wish he would post a conventionally-formatted .PDF that puts every page on a full sheet of standard printer paper.
replyI immediately wanted the same thing, so I made it. The book is licensed Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 International License, so here you go.
replyhttps://cdn.filepost.dev/file/filepost/uploads/15/1578f21219...
Thanks.
replyBut fyi for others this is one version behind and missing these updates:
V1.3 (May 12, 2026)
Many typos and phrasing fixes with the help of LLMs.
Section 3.8. Added a section about large-scale trainingOh, that's unfortunate! I made it from the A5 version on the site which I downloaded right before making my post. Looks like the author hasn't updated that one.
replyI just emailed him. Fingers crossed.
replyThanks!
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