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As one of the most comprehensive machine learning texts around, this book does justice to the field's incredible richness, but without losing sight of the unifying principles. Peter Flach's clear, example-based approach begins by discussing how a spam filter works, which gives an immediate introduction to machine learning in action,…
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1 author picked Machine Learning as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Peter Flach’s book on machine learning had a profound impact on me. The book is simple to understand, and highly visual. But beyond that Peter himself is a lovely person who obviously cares about all his students. I believe for getting started in machine learning and wanting to understand the algorithms that power many models, this is a great place to start.
But most importantly it’s a great way to understand the power and gain more intention behind what we are doing.
From Matthew's list on ethical artificial intelligence.
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