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		GabrielF00 on July 20, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Level-Up Your Machine Learning What are the HN community's thoughts on Learning from Data by Abu Mostafa, Magdon-Ismail and Lin (http://amlbook.com/)? The lectures from their course are here: http://work.caltech.edu/lectures.html I haven't started it yet, but this book was recommended by some folks at my company.

misiti3780 on July 20, 2014 [–]

I really liked it - it was a lot smaller than I thought it was going to be (I didn't look at the page count) but they definitely explain some really import core ideas in ML like bias/variance tradeoff, curse of dimensionality, etc. in a clear way.

misiti3780 on July 21, 2014 | [–]

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