From the yc reading list 2015 [http://themacro.com/articles/2015/12/yc-2015-reading-list/], they recommend [for Neural Networks] this book: http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/
It's more about understanding than "learning tools."
Re:Google's Free Deep Learning Course
by datawrangler on Friday January 22, 2016 @08:14PM
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I really liked the NN&DL course. Another I've been meaning to check out is this book: http://www.deeplearningbook.org
That's an exceptionally clear, well-written book, and I recommend it without reservation. And it's free online, so anybody who's curious can just check it out.
NN&DL is great for neural nets specifically, it doesn't really cover other branches of ML. That being said, I found it very easy to understand with no prior ML knowledge, all you need is some calculus and linear algebra experience.
Re:Google's Free Deep Learning Course
by thecrazyone on Saturday January 23, 2016 @12:09AM
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Could you share a link to the YC reading list 2015 . I'm surprised no one asked.
Re:Google's Free Deep Learning Course
by rahimnathwani on Friday January 22, 2016 @09:46AM
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You might like the book 'data science from scratch' by Joel Grus. He uses Python without ML libraries and explains clearly what's going on.
On the other hand, some months ago I watched the ML course by Andrew Ng, and I still did not understand how to test a simple linear regression for myself, so I did not really understand it, and stopped watching the course.