Some papers that have been impactful to my thinking.

Thought-provoking

  • Pennycook (2015). On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit.
  • Shannon (1956). The bandwagon.
  • Sutton (2019). The bitter lesson.
  • Skinner (1956), A case history in scientific method.

Information Geometry

  • Kakade (2001). A natural policy gradient.
  • Amari (1998). Natural gradient works efficiently in learning.

Reinforcement Learning

  • Ortner (2020). Regret bounds for reinforcement learning via markov chain concentration.
  • Barreto (2017). Successor features for transfer in reinforcement learning.

Information Theory

  • Drmota (2023). Analytic Information Theory.

Psychology

  • McKay (2019). The Dialectical Behaviour Theraphy Skills Workbook.
  • Hayes. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.