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Technical Book on Deep Learning

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Re: Technical Book on Deep Learning

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It's cool to see that much dedication. It's useful when people take the time to summarize knowledge in a book to serve as reference. But ... I have the feeling that the author, who is relatively new to the field (by his own admission), expanded a lot of formulas and made certain parts of the theory more complicated than it should be. Look around page 60. There are formulas with 6 summation signs in front of them, wit…

See author's note excerpted below; that was an explicit goal of the project. > This work has no benefit nor added value to the deep learning topic on its own. It is just the reformulation of ideas of brighter researchers to fit a peculiar mindset: the one of preferring formulas with ten indices but where one knows precisely what one is manipulating rather than (in my opinion sometimes opaque) matrix formulations wher…

I had not caught that note from the author. Thanks for pointing it out.

Re: Technical Book on Deep Learning

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok I know about Comic Sans and Papyrus but what's the deal with Palatino?

It's math characters are nearly illegible. The font itself is OK, but the math it causes is rarely used for a reason.

I am the author of the document. My aesthetics sense is pretty limited as you have observed. I like the mathpazo font, but if you don't share my weird tastes, you can just download the repo, comment the \usepackage[sc]{mathpazo} line in formatAndDefs.tex and you're good to go.
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