
Deep Learning: A Practitioner's Approach
by Josh Patterson, Adam Gibson · first published 2017
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I'm currently working through "Deep Learning: A Practitioner's Approach" by Adam Gibson and Josh Patterson. Its a couple of years old but seems like a good book, and I'm certainly learning a lot. It doesn't consider some of the newer tooling, like TensorFlow, but the fundamentals…
on “Ask HN: Best way to get started with AI?” ↗+1. I'm finding this book really useful for getting my head around machine learning and TensorFlow. Also Deep Learning: A Practitioner's Approach by Patterson and Gibson.
on “Ask HN: CS and programming books of 2017” ↗We have an oreilly book dropping on deep learning next month at strata hadoop in new york. We've been working on it for a few years now, but yes: can confirm. Our editor has been amazing.The last 10 ft and minor tweaks have been the biggest lesson for…
on “Grokking Deep Learning” ↗…up to the next 24 hours. The amazon affiliate panel shows an item by item breakdown of any purchases made by cookied users, goodbye private purchases. Here is a non tracked link: https://amazon.com/Deep-Learning-Practitioners-Adam-Gibson/d...
on “Grokking Deep Learning” ↗[Disclosure: I wrote this.] http://deeplearning4j.org/neuralnet-overview.html Also, this book is coming: https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Learning-Practitioners-Adam-Gibs...
on “Neural Network Architectures” ↗Disclaimer: I wrote this deep learning book. My book covers quite a bit of this: https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Learning-Practitioners-Josh-Patt... It's the least mathy book you'll find and doesn't really assume any math knowledge. Much of…
on “Core ML Community Tools” ↗…going forward at the eclipse foundation as well as using dl4j in our product. Please check out the oreilly book as well (currently #2 on amazon right next to the goodfellow book): https://amazon.com/Deep-Learning-Practitioners-Josh-Patterso... Email in profile if there's any specific questions.
on “Show HN: Eclipse Deeplearning4j” ↗…bought it from Amazon UK and they list the date as November 2015 [1] for some reason. I should have checked the book before posting. I've flagged the error with Amazon UK. [1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Deep-Learning-Practitioners-Adam-Gi...
on “Ask HN: Best way to get started with AI?” ↗