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by verandaguy 3598 days ago
scikit-learn would likely fall into the category of "black box" frameworks the author mentions. If I understand correctly, this book will let the reader gain an understanding of the underlying algorithms from an intuitive standrpoint.
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It is worth noting that scikit-learn does value clear understandable implementations, so you can actually pop open the source code and expect to find something other than a black box. Now, in many cases you'll have optimization work that means a slightly less obvious approach is taken, but the scikit-learn maintainers do work hard to try and ensure that, if you want to learn, you should be able to open up the code and do so.
couldn't have said it better myself :)