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Huang was asked on Acquired for favorite business books he had taken something from. He praised Andrew Grove's books as really good, and Fortune identifies Only the Paranoid Survive among those Grove books. Fortune is used as the public row source because it verifies the specific title.

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Fortune · 2023-11-11 · accessed 2026-06-22

Article · Reported podcast title identification

Fortune reports that Huang told Acquired he had read Andrew Grove's business books, called them really good, and identifies Only the Paranoid Survive among those Grove books. The Acquired transcript supplies the favorite-business-books prompt and Grove-books praise.

Altman recommended Superintelligence inside a post about why superhuman machine intelligence could become an existential risk.

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Sam Altman · undated · accessed 2026-06-21

Article · Personal blog post

Altman's own blog post calls Bostrom's Superintelligence excellent, the best thing he has seen on the topic, and well worth a read.

The title appears in the transcribed Twitter AMA answer to a question about the best books Altman recommends for a young startup founder.

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Hacker News / Algolia API · 2015-10-21 · accessed 2026-06-22

Comment · HN transcript of Twitter AMA answer

A Hacker News commenter transcribed Altman answering a Twitter AMA question about the best books he recommends for a young startup founder; Altman later confirmed the disputed Art of War in the Middle Ages title in the same thread.

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.

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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.

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 title appears in the transcribed Twitter AMA answer to a question about the best books Altman recommends for a young startup founder.

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Hacker News / Algolia API · 2015-10-21 · accessed 2026-06-22

Comment · HN transcript of Twitter AMA answer

A Hacker News commenter transcribed Altman answering a Twitter AMA question about the best books he recommends for a young startup founder; Altman later confirmed the disputed Art of War in the Middle Ages title in the same thread.

The title appears in the transcribed Twitter AMA answer to a question about the best books Altman recommends for a young startup founder.

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Hacker News / Algolia API · 2015-10-21 · accessed 2026-06-22

Comment · HN transcript of Twitter AMA answer

A Hacker News commenter transcribed Altman answering a Twitter AMA question about the best books he recommends for a young startup founder; Altman later confirmed the disputed Art of War in the Middle Ages title in the same thread.

The title appears in the transcribed Twitter AMA answer to a question about the best books Altman recommends for a young startup founder.

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Hacker News / Algolia API · 2015-10-21 · accessed 2026-06-22

Comment · HN transcript of Twitter AMA answer

A Hacker News commenter transcribed Altman answering a Twitter AMA question about the best books he recommends for a young startup founder; Altman later confirmed the disputed Art of War in the Middle Ages title in the same thread.

The title appears in the transcribed Twitter AMA answer to a question about the best books Altman recommends for a young startup founder.

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Hacker News / Algolia API · 2015-10-21 · accessed 2026-06-22

Comment · HN transcript of Twitter AMA answer

A Hacker News commenter transcribed Altman answering a Twitter AMA question about the best books he recommends for a young startup founder; Altman later confirmed the disputed Art of War in the Middle Ages title in the same thread.

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.

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

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Author-hosted promotional endorsement with reader-facing guidance, accepted by independent preliminary source review. This does not make Huang an AI researcher or imply endorsement of every later online revision.

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Dive into Deep Learning authors · undated author-hosted endorsement · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Author-hosted attributed endorsement

The official book README attributes to Jensen Huang a reader-facing endorsement saying the book deserves attention from anyone wanting to understand deep learning.

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.