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Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by turingcompeteme »

caliber wrote: post #114
Thriptic wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+1 for Elements. I started with Introduction to Statistical Learning and then graduated to Elements as I learned more and grew more confident. Those are fantastic books.

Could you elaborate how you switched to Elements? I am curious if it makes sense for one to go through both books in sequence.

As an engineer who hadn't studied that type of math in quite a while, Elements was pretty tough and I was getting stuck a lot.

ISLR introduces you to many of the same topics in a less rigorous way. Once I was familiar with the topics and had worked through the exercises, Elements became much easier to learn from.

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Post by fao_ »

icantdrive55 wrote: post #73

Watch repair: The watch repair manual, by Fried Practical watch repairing, by De Carle The Swiss Watch repairer's manual, by Jendritzki (This book is great, but don't pay more than $75. After Fried's book it pulls in all the information nicely.) Bulova Repair Training Manual Chicago school of watchmaking (There's no copyright on this course. A guy on EBay has been scaring people for years. He does not own the copyrig…

Hey, it looks like you've been shadowbanned since around september 2016. A skim through shows one or two comments that have been vouched for (as I did with this one), and a lot of 'reasonable' comments that haven't.

I'm not sure what to say, because a fair amount of your comments didn't really seem worthy of a shadowban, so I assume that you cleaned up your behaviour, but alas too late. You might wish to email an appeal to the moderators to sort it out.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by jrumbut »

caliber wrote: post #114
Thriptic wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+1 for Elements. I started with Introduction to Statistical Learning and then graduated to Elements as I learned more and grew more confident. Those are fantastic books.

Could you elaborate how you switched to Elements? I am curious if it makes sense for one to go through both books in sequence.

If you reading Elements is difficult then I would recommend Introduction.

I'm not sure if reading Introduction will prepare you for Elements so much as it will just give you some knowledge you can use and see if it makes sense for you and what you want to do to go and (re)learn some of the math tidbits that you need for Elements.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by jrumbut »

larrydag wrote: post #16
Yadi wrote: post #7

In machine learning, hands down these are some of the best related textbooks: - [0] Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics) and also: - [1] The Elements of Statistical Learning - [2] Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction by Barto and Sutton - [3] The Deep Learning by Aaron Courville, Ian Goodfellow, and Yoshua Bengio - [4] Neural Network Methods for Natural Language Processing…

For regression I really like Frank Harrell's Regression Modeling Strategies. http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/RmS

Frank Harrell writes a lot of great stuff and his answers on the Cross Validated Stack Exchange site are worth just reading even if you didn't think you wanted to ask the question they reply to.

His blog, http://www.fharrell.com, also contains interesting posts.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by deepaksurti »

Computer Graphics:

[1a, 1b, 1c] Computer Graphics, Principles and Practice Series [2] Physically Based Rendering [3] Real Time Rendering

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[1a] https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Graphics-Principles-James-Fo... [1b] https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Graphics-Principles-Practice... [1c] https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Graphics-Principles-Practice... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Physically-Based-Rendering-Theory-Imp... [3] https://www.amazon.com/Real-Time-Rendering-Third-Tomas-Akeni...

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by Barjak »

amelius wrote: post #149
sethhochberg wrote: post #61

Putting my mostly-retired audio engineer hat back on for a minute... The Yamaha Sound Reinforcement Handbook https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Reinforcement-Handbook-Gary-Dav... This is basically the soundman's bible. Sold for an aspiring live sound engineer, has much more than just advice for live sound guys - covering everything from microphones to acoustics to basic electronics to handy rules of thumb to MIDI, all writ…

Does this book tell me how to compute e.g. when a physical object hits another physical object, what the resulting sound will be like? Or if object X (e.g. speaker cone) moves through air with velocity v(t), what will the sound be like at position P?

Sounds like you're interested in computational aeroacouatics.
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