GROKKING MACHINE LEARNING
K**S
Excellent book
Book is written in a clear way. Easy to read. Highly recommended for anyone intersted in machine learning, Especially novice.
A**R
Too many typos
Serrano provides excellent material on his channel on ML topics. His wizardry in book form has to be compelling surely? Indeed, the author explains things clearly but...there is a but...the book has a number of distracting errors. Typos like 'Over!itting' are trivial, but variable subscripts are all over the place sometimes. The regularization chapter has a few oddities in that area (e.g. '2**2 = 2').I'm about half way through but finding some of the inconsistencies a bit tiresome.Nothing but compliments to Serrano's authoring skills and ability to communicate. I do wonder if there were problems in production as the proof reading leaves something to be desired.The book is pitched at the reasonably serious money end of the spectrum. It's worth if you want a clear explanation of ML concepts. The lack of diligence on the final quality of the book is a bit of a disappointment.
C**N
Poor print job ruins a good book
Just another paperback that looks like it rolled off a laser printer running in eco mode with the "replace toner" light flashing.
K**F
Not useful if you are on later versions of Python
Disappointing that the book concentrates on a Python library that will not work on Python 3.9 or later. The turicreate package is only valid with Python up to 3.8. Of 410 pages, turicreate is mentioned up to page 171 and scikit learn only starts at 265. The information looks good based on first two chapters but if you're looking for scikit learn this is not the book.
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