Antilibrary

Explore Ugur Köysüren's antilibrary, a collection of unread books and papers about data-intensive applications, machine learning, and language models that represent my curiosity and future learning journey.

I decided recently to flip the Dunning Kruger Effect and started a antilibrary, for those who are new to the term is it is a term that Nassim Nocholas Taleb mention as “the collection of unread books”. I always hated the idea to store books, and have a ego-boosting library.

Books

  • Designing Data Intensive Applications (Kleppman, 2017)
  • The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book (Burkov, 2019)
  • The Hundred-Page Language Models Book (Burkov, 2025)
  • “Build a Large Language Model” (Raschka, 2024).
  • “Building LLMs for Production” (Bouchard and Peters, 2024)
  • “LLM Engineer’s Handbook” (Iusztin and Labonne, 2024).

Papers

  • Monolith: Real Time Recommendation System With Collisionless Embedding Table

Designing Data-Intensive Applications Wine
If there is a wine, which is half as good as the book. I would buy definitely buy it.