The speaker found that spending a day closely reading Anthropic's original transformer-circuits paper was more useful than skimming it, making spaced-repetition cards, or reading widely about AI.

“instead of just skimming a bunch of things just like really stop on like yeah if there's a key piece of literature”

“or for yeah in order to for example understand the transformer i like”

“There's always a car party lectures, but one that was really useful is the Anthropics original transformer circuit paper and I just like just spending a day on that paper instead of skimming it and making a bunch of space repetition cards and so forth was much more useful than just like generally reading widely about AI.”