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Building Machine Learning Systems with Python - Richert, Coelho

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Where to Learn More about <strong>Machine</strong> <strong>Learning</strong><br />

If you want to move beyond an introduction and learn all the gory mathematical<br />

details, then <strong>Machine</strong> <strong>Learning</strong>: A Probabilistic Perspective, K. Murphy, The MIT Press, is<br />

an excellent option. It is very recent (published in 2012), and contains the cutting edge<br />

of ML research. This 1,100 page book can also serve as a reference, as very little of<br />

machine learning has been left out.<br />

Q&A sites<br />

The following are the two Q&A websites of machine learning:<br />

• MetaOptimize (http://metaoptimize.com/qa) is a machine learning<br />

Q&A website where many very knowledgeable researchers and<br />

practitioners interact<br />

• Cross Validated (http://stats.stackexchange.com) is a general<br />

statistics Q&A site, which often features machine learning questions<br />

as well<br />

As mentioned in the beginning of the book, if you have questions specific<br />

to particular parts of the book, feel free to ask them at TwoToReal<br />

(http://www.twotoreal.com). We try to be as quick as possible to<br />

jump in and help as best as we can.<br />

Blogs<br />

The following is an obviously non-exhaustive list of blogs that are interesting to<br />

someone working on machine learning:<br />

• <strong>Machine</strong> <strong>Learning</strong> Theory at http://hunch.net<br />

° ° This is a blog by John Langford, the brain behind Vowpal Wabbit<br />

(http://hunch.net/~vw/), but guest posts also appear.<br />

° ° The average pace is approximately one post per month. The posts are<br />

more theoretical. They also offer additional value in brain teasers.<br />

• Text and data mining by practical means at http://textanddatamining.<br />

blogspot.de<br />

° ° The average pace is one per month, which is very practical and has<br />

always surprising approaches<br />

• A blog by Edwin Chen at http://blog.echen.me<br />

° ° The average pace is one per month, providing more applied topics<br />

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