My favorite little book is François Fleuret's: The Little Book of Deep Learning https://fleuret.org/francois/lbdl.html

▲ arcanemachiner 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I love how that site offers a phone-formatted PDF as an option. How thoughtful!

You may enjoy the reflow feature on Koreader. It fits a pdfs content into a screenwidth single column layout. That text is also zoomable.

▲

dominotw 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

i got duo to increase my reading.

▲

deskamess 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Is 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.

	▲	y1n0 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		From what I understand the iPad mini weighs the same with a slightly larger screen. Has their matte display option. I 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.

▲

y1n0 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

My old crappy eyes need big screens for this. I have one on order. I’m ambivilating over the screen crack issue.

▲ brcmthrowaway 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My 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...

▲ joe_the_user 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'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.

	▲	wh306 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Only 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.

▲ CamperBob2 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It'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.

▲ bscphil 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I 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.

https://cdn.filepost.dev/file/filepost/uploads/15/1578f21219...

▲ rahimnathwani 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Thanks.

But 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 training

▲

bscphil an hour ago | parent [-]

Oh, 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.

	▲	rahimnathwani an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I just emailed him. Fingers crossed.

▲ CamperBob2 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Thanks!