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

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7th May 2022
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Best open-source textbooks (goal: make them collaborative)?
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Faustine Li

May 07, 2022*

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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/

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Derek M. Jones

May 07, 2022*

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Database of Free / Open Access Online Computer Science Books, Textbooks, and Lecture Notes (1264 books and growing)

Open Textbook Library

Evidence-based software engineering and the second half is a self-contained introduction to data analysis; all the code+data.

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dkirmani

May 08, 2022

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Every textbook is open source <3

http://libgen.is

Every paper too

http://sci-hub.ru

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[-]shuffled-cantaloupe4y10

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

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

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[-]Vaughn Papenhausen4y10

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

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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?