Recommendations for Getting the Most Out of a Technical Book

This short article compiles a few notes I previously shared when readers ask how to get the most out of my building large language model from scratch books. I follow a similar approach when I read technical books myself. It is not meant as a universal recipe, but it may be a helpful starting point. For this particular book, I strongly suggest reading it in order since each chapter depends on the previous one. And for each chapter, I recommend the following steps.