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Re:6.S094: Deep Learning for Self-Driving Cars by egdamy on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @01:30PM (#13367466)
Why not a book instead like the elements of statistical learning?

http://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/download.htm...

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Re:6.S094: Deep Learning for Self-Driving Cars by hackernewsacct on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @01:35PM (#13367520)
Based on Amazon reviews recommending this book to a beginner is like recommending rudin to a high school junior that wants to learn calculus for the first time. Is there a better book?
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Re:6.S094: Deep Learning for Self-Driving Cars by smalley on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @01:58PM (#13367767)
Introduction to Statistical Learning? It's free and has an available MOOC http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/
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Re:6.S094: Deep Learning for Self-Driving Cars by hackernewsacct on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @02:04PM (#13367838)
Thanks for the link.

https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Statistical-Learning-Predict...

vs

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Statistical-Learning-App...

The former seems to assume prior knowledge and the latter seems more beginner friendly, except it uses R (in case anyone wants the distinction).

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Re:6.S094: Deep Learning for Self-Driving Cars by gubbe on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @02:24PM (#13368038)
These books assume some degree of Linear Algebra, ESL is definitely not for a entry level.

I would like to add www.codingthe matrix.com for any developers, which has a MOOC as well (Coursera), as a complement to Strang.

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Re:6.S094: Deep Learning for Self-Driving Cars by disgruntledphd2 on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @02:08AM (#13372320)
R is well worth learning if you're going to be doing any serious work with data. It's a weird-ass language, but it does data analysis/graphing/modelling really, really well.
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Re:6.S094: Deep Learning for Self-Driving Cars by rmonroe on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @02:14PM (#13367937)
I support this statement. Not a book for beginners, IMO
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Re:6.S094: Deep Learning for Self-Driving Cars by windsignaling on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @03:47PM (#13368823)
This is in no way appropriate for someone who is asking for math basics.

A lot of the material in this book makes much more sense having had experience coding machine learning algorithms.

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