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Free Textbooks on Machine Learning
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Re: Free Textbooks on Machine Learning
#12Hmm, it looks like "Free Textbooks on [choose subject]" submissions are an easy way to get some link karma on HN. I've seen this happen quite often lately, and usually these kind of posts go up in the ranks pretty quickly -- they also generate near zero discussion :-)
1) So what? Personally, I don't give a shit about karma and would rather not see it, account age or even usernames, but that's another discussion.
2) Perhaps you're being shortsighted. Popular educational submissions now could seed wider, educated submissions/discussion later. The immediate number of comments doesn't necessarily encompass the entire value of a submission towards discussion on HN.
Re: Free Textbooks on Machine Learning
#13"you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a fuckin education you coulda got for a dollah fifty in late chahges at the public library" I really like that quote from Good Will Hunting. Unfortunately, most of us aren't savants and there's a lot more that goes into learning something than finding one free textbook on it. I think we're starting to see a lot more free textbooks because we're learning that, when it comes to…
Obviously the price of textbooks isn't the ultimate bottleneck for learning stuff. But, there are important difference between free & cheap. Easier access has all sorts of catalyzing effects. For example, a free textbook can be referred to. "For a more detailed discussion of this read chapter 4 of Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning."
When I was a high school student trying to learn subjects outside what my school taught, free access to books was pretty much necessary.
Re: Free Textbooks on Machine Learning
#14God says...
them.
17:24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.
17:25 And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.
17:26 And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God? 17:27 And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.