A New Book: Building Machine Learning Systems with Python
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A New Book: Building Machine Learning Systems with Python
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#2For anyone curious to learn more about machine learning, I would recommend: http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Algorithmic-Perspecti...
Re: A New Book: Building Machine Learning Systems with Python
#3For anyone curious to learn more about machine learning, I would recommend: http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Algorithmic-Perspecti...
To tag onto this, I found "Learning from Data" [0] by Abu Mastafa to be a great intro to the field. It's not heavy on the math, but it doesn't gloss over it either
[0]:http://www.amazon.com/Learning-From-Data-Yaser-Abu-Mostafa/d...
Re: A New Book: Building Machine Learning Systems with Python
#4For anyone curious to learn more about machine learning, I would recommend: http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Algorithmic-Perspecti...
I have this book, and would not recommend it as a stand-alone learning guide. It gives a decent intuitive treatment of some topics but is inconsistent. It will furthermore jump between e.g. an explanation of neural networks without any mathematics to the full derivation of backpropagation. It tries to hit a sweet spot between rigor and intuition but in my opinion it largely fails to bridge the two.
Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any good ML books that are current. Mitchell's was really good but is out of date. Bishop is a megalithic tome of statistical mathematics and is better as a reference than a textbook. I think that a good MOOC course paired with selected readings is the best currently available option.
Re: A New Book: Building Machine Learning Systems with Python
#5For anyone curious to learn more about machine learning, I would recommend: http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Algorithmic-Perspecti...
To tag onto this, I found "Learning from Data" [0] by Abu Mastafa to be a great intro to the field. It's not heavy on the math, but it doesn't gloss over it either [0]: http://www.amazon.com/Learning-From-Data-Yaser-Abu-Mostafa/d...
Have to agree. And it's very inexpensive because Yaser refused to give-in to academic publishers, who would've charged the typical $70-80, and self-published so he could offer it for less than half the cost.
Not only is the book great, but his lectures are PHENOMENAL. He breaks concepts down in such a careful, accessible way. Its a bit late to join the online course, but you can see all the lectures on YouTube (work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html) or iTunesU (I prefer the latter, using the app on iOS - awesome b/c you can bookmark and record notes at those marks - otherwise I notice these video types of courses are way less useful - no way to review - wish Coursera/Udacity/EdX had that feature.)
Yaser is an awesome guy btw - he's very active on the forum (see the link from the above caltech site - on right hand side). He is very gracious with his time - I'm not a CalTech student, and yet he has answered all my questions and even helped me find a tutor for the course that was a previous student at CalTech (I live in Pasadena). He truly cares - and that comes off in the lectures as well. Enjoy!
Re: A New Book: Building Machine Learning Systems with Python
#6For anyone curious to learn more about machine learning, I would recommend: http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Algorithmic-Perspecti...
I have this book, and would not recommend it as a stand-alone learning guide. It gives a decent intuitive treatment of some topics but is inconsistent. It will furthermore jump between e.g. an explanation of neural networks without any mathematics to the full derivation of backpropagation. It tries to hit a sweet spot between rigor and intuition but in my opinion it largely fails to bridge the two. Unfortunately, I'm…
Just checked out Mitchell's site. Looks like he's been working on a 2nd ed for awhile. he should just open-source the first one since it's so old. But I found he just released all the vids from a ML class he gave in 2011 - wonder if they are as good as Yaser's? http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/10701_sp11/lectures.shtml
Re: A New Book: Building Machine Learning Systems with Python
#7For anyone curious to learn more about machine learning, I would recommend: http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Algorithmic-Perspecti...
For the curious, I think nothing beats the introduction to ML class from Stanfords Andrew Nq [1]. He lectures and explains with a clarity and consistency I don't often see.
Re: A New Book: Building Machine Learning Systems with Python
#8For anyone curious to learn more about machine learning, I would recommend: http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Algorithmic-Perspecti...
I have this book, and would not recommend it as a stand-alone learning guide. It gives a decent intuitive treatment of some topics but is inconsistent. It will furthermore jump between e.g. an explanation of neural networks without any mathematics to the full derivation of backpropagation. It tries to hit a sweet spot between rigor and intuition but in my opinion it largely fails to bridge the two. Unfortunately, I'm…
Murphy's is probably most current, and an excellent text (read first review). OTW there's lots of stuff on the web for various levels of rigor
http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Probabilistic-Perspec...
http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/186/good-freely-availab...
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have this book, and would not recommend it as a stand-alone learning guide. It gives a decent intuitive treatment of some topics but is inconsistent. It will furthermore jump between e.g. an explanation of neural networks without any mathematics to the full derivation of backpropagation. It tries to hit a sweet spot between rigor and intuition but in my opinion it largely fails to bridge the two. Unfortunately, I'm…
Murphy's is probably most current, and an excellent text (read first review). OTW there's lots of stuff on the web for various levels of rigor http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Probabilistic-Perspec... http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/186/good-freely-availab... http://www.p-value.info/2012/11/free-datascience-books.html http://www.kaggle.com/wiki/Tutorials
Now is a good time to pick up the Murphy book:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/content/spread-knowledge-sale-detail...
Re: A New Book: Building Machine Learning Systems with Python
#10For anyone curious to learn more about machine learning, I would recommend: http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Algorithmic-Perspecti...
For the curious, I think nothing beats the introduction to ML class from Stanfords Andrew Nq [1]. He lectures and explains with a clarity and consistency I don't often see. [1]: https://www.coursera.org/course/ml
Taking this course right now. Awesome.