Best open-source textbooks (goal: make them collaborative)?

post by shuffled-cantaloupe · 2022-05-07T23:40:03.993Z · LW · GW · 2 comments

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I'm looking for online open-source / generously licensed textbooks, papers or tutorials.

 Think of stuff like: http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/

Why? I'm currently running https://chimu.sh --a collaborative learning platform. Quick explanation: Chimu combines an e-reader with a Stack Overflow-like Q&A forum. As people read, they can view others' questions and ask their own. Demo here (desktop works best).

I need to seed the site with initial content, and I figured LW would be a great place to ask.

With this in mind, what are good online tutorials / textbooks that people here have learned from? Is there any book or paper that you wish that you could discuss with your friends?

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answer by Faustine Li · 2022-05-07T18:46:02.475Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Sutton and Barto's Reinforcement Learning textbook: http://incompleteideas.net/book/the-book-2nd.html

Elements of Statistical Learning: https://hastie.su.domains/ElemStatLearn/ as well as the more introductory version: https://www.statlearning.com/

Deep Learning textbook: https://www.deeplearningbook.org/

Bayesian Data Analysis: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/

answer by dkirmani · 2022-05-08T07:40:17.204Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Every textbook is open source <3

http://libgen.is

Every paper too

http://sci-hub.ru

↑ comment by shuffled-cantaloupe · 2022-05-08T08:09:00.741Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

If I put everthing on libgen onto my site, I will get sued. So the license is important.

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comment by philip_b (crabman) · 2022-05-07T18:27:58.558Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Mathematical Components - a textbook on formal proofs using Coq with MathComp library.

comment by Vaughn Papenhausen (Ikaxas) · 2022-05-07T16:50:31.589Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Fyi, the link to your site is broken for those viewing on greaterwrong.com; it's interpreting "--a" as part of the link.