Re:Machine Learning Books That Helped Me Level Up
by hooloovoo_zoo on Sunday April 28, 2019 @01:48PM
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I think the Amazon review is rather dramatic, and probably not in a position to comment on style. I thought both Goodfellow and Geron were good. Goodfellow is deep learning for academics coming from a different field; Geron is deep learning for software engineers.
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Re:Machine Learning Books That Helped Me Level Up
by spectramax on Sunday April 28, 2019 @01:58PM
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That's the thing, even as an academic book it falls short. It feels disjointed, unorganized and poorly written - and most frustratingly, incomplete.
The reason for Goodfellow's popularity is that it was publish in 2014 right at the turn of exponential interest in Deep Learning after AlexNet. It took off and became popular, but readers now feel it is stale for the aforementioned reasons.
Re:Machine Learning Books That Helped Me Level Up
by hooloovoo_zoo on Sunday April 28, 2019 @02:03PM
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I certainly agree it could be better, but I also think "disjointed, unorganized and poorly written - and most frustratingly, incomplete" more or less sums up the field of deep learning :).