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Re: Source Code for the book “Machine Learning Systems with Python”

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Post by rfrey » Fri, Oct 04, 2013, 3:41 PM UTC

msoad wrote: post #2

I don't want to be that guy, specially it's open source. But I would not buy a book from Packt Publishing because of this[1] [1] https://plus.google.com/+PaulIrish/posts/XzFaHHPNSfe

Clicking through Paul Irish's post to the original from mrdoob, and reading the comments, it seems to me that David Barnes from Packt responded in a pretty open and forthright way.

Re: Source Code for the book “Machine Learning Systems with Python”

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Post by garenp » Fri, Oct 04, 2013, 5:17 PM UTC

suhair wrote: post #5

Currently I am reading this book in Safari Books Online and it looks excellent. I was not a fan of PacktPub but Lately they are releasing excellent books like Mastering Web development with AngularJS and Learning IPython for interactive computing besides this Machine Learning book. The only grunge against this book is it used Iris database for its "Hello World" and some how i could not wrap around that data, rest see…

In my experience, the Packt books have always felt as though they have had very little editing and review (things you'd never see in a technical book from e.g. Addison Wesley or Prentice Hall). So if the book seems great it's probably due mostly to the author (which is fine with me if the book is cheap).

Re: Source Code for the book “Machine Learning Systems with Python”

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Post by sebastialonso » Fri, Oct 04, 2013, 8:17 PM UTC

suhair wrote: post #5

Currently I am reading this book in Safari Books Online and it looks excellent. I was not a fan of PacktPub but Lately they are releasing excellent books like Mastering Web development with AngularJS and Learning IPython for interactive computing besides this Machine Learning book. The only grunge against this book is it used Iris database for its "Hello World" and some how i could not wrap around that data, rest see…

Looking at the table of contents, it seems the approach is deeper than O'Reilly's Collective Intelligence. I'm thinking about buying it, for Chapter 12 alone.

When you read that, can you tell us what is was like?

Re: Source Code for the book “Machine Learning Systems with Python”

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Post by malandrew » Sat, Oct 05, 2013, 5:12 AM UTC

vdaniuk wrote: post #4

stbtrax wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was thinking about getting this on Amazon, but all of the reviews look suspiciously fake. All of the reviewers have only reviewed this book, and one has only reviewed packt publishing books. And all of the reviews are from a 3 week period(a few months after the book's release).

Amazon allows you to get a refund during 1 week so you are not losing anything if you opt to purchase the book and the quality is sub par.

I'm never worried about a refund for a book. I'm worried that I can't a refund for my time.