Big Picture Papers

Papers with big ideas.

🧮 math

A Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948)

Learning at the Knowledge Level (1986)

46656 Varieties of Bayesians

Tensor Product Variable Binding and the Representation of Symbolic Structures in Connectionist Systems (1990)

Intelligence Without Representation (1991)

Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures (2001)

Learning by Learning To Communicate (2007)

A Roadmap towards Machine Intelligence (2015)

Ten Great Ideas about Chance (2017)

Computing Bayes: Bayesian Computation from 1763 to the 21st Century (2020)

What are the most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years? (2020)

Reward is Enough (2021)

The Irrelevance of Turing Machines to AI (2023)

Protein storytelling through physics (2020)