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I read the title and was somehow was expecting a guide on compiler design implementing some flavor of the the ML language such as Standard ML.
Excellent! Very kind of you to do this. Are you accepting comments? If not, ignore the following. :) As someone who learned how to program from trial and error via tutorials on the internet (some of the people who are going to read your book are people like me), I just have one comment: Try not leaning on libraries in your tutorials. I know it sounds insane to suggest you not use numpy in any kind of ML tutorial, but…
No dependencies. Just straight C++. The code is heavily annotated, doesn't use any matrix libraries or anything, and gets 92% accuracy or something without any fancy techniques on the MNIST handwritten digits database.
Excellent! Very kind of you to do this. Are you accepting comments? If not, ignore the following. :) As someone who learned how to program from trial and error via tutorials on the internet (some of the people who are going to read your book are people like me), I just have one comment: Try not leaning on libraries in your tutorials. I know it sounds insane to suggest you not use numpy in any kind of ML tutorial, but…
I wholeheartedly agree with this. As a software developer without a strong math education, any time I open a "from scratch" ml learning resource, I immediately close it because I don't have an understanding of the math happening in the black box of numpy. Thank you for the Sentdex recommendation.
Outside of the things under np.linalg or np.fft, I cannot think of much really difficult math in numpy.
To grok numpy what you really need is a good mental model of the multidimensional array, reshapes, reductions, transpose and so on. But this isn't really math, it's more data wrangling and kinda boring and tedious "data chores" we need to do before we get to the interesting parts of the job.
This book is awesome! How does this compare to Introduction to Statistical Learning or Elements of Statistical Learning? Other than the addition of code?
This looks fantastic! As a bit of a selfish question, have you considered also offering a downloadable epub of this book? I've been trying to keep my long-form digital reading to my eReader, for the sake of not looking at LCDs all day, but that makes web ebooks a bit of a pain due to e-ink not liking scrolling very much.