A 12-month, 15-book reading path to becoming a world-class AI engineer
burkov · x · 2026-09-07
A shared 12-month curriculum of 15 books for becoming a strong AI engineer: months 1-3 cover fundamentals (Burkov's The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book, Mathematics for Machine Learning, Hands-On Machine Learning), months 4-6 move to core ML and deep learning (Bishop's Deep Learning: Foundations and Concepts, Elements of Statistical Learning, Nielsen, Goodfellow, Dive into Deep Learning, ML Yearning), with most titles freely available.
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