Mathematics for Machine Learning

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Mathematics for Machine Learning
Marc Peter Deisenroth, A. Aldo Faisal, Cheng Soon Ong, Cambridge University Press, 2019/03/25
There are many many reasons why I would recommend this book (421 page PDF). But what makes me link to it here is the simple introductory paragraph on page 12: "The goal of machine learning is to design general-purpose  methodologies  to  extract  valuable  patterns  from  data... To achieve this goal, we design that are typically related to the process that generates data... Learning can be understood as a way to automatically find patterns and structure in data by optimizing the parameters of the model." Another 409 pages explaining this concept follow. More...