[mark_l_watson]

Thanks to the four authors and publisher for making this available as a PDF download.

I am definitely going to give this a read. After decades of more or less using GOFAI, the last eight years has mostly been machine learning and deep learning. Lately I have been scratching an itch to combine old fashioned symbolic AI with more modern deep learning (hybrid systems). I started a new job on Monday where I think this may happen.

From the table of contents, the four examples look appropriate for looking at ML in the context of large real world problems.

[da39a3ee]

Are you sure? You sound like someone who’s interested in actually doing things; the book looks like endless rambling about high level ethical/conceptual/societal context for data science. It looks about as interesting as picking up a random volume of a random social sciences journal. I think Peter Norvig’s python code is beautiful and amazing though, and probably same for most things he’s done.

[nojito]

The code is the least important part of data science.

[da39a3ee]

I didn't mean to suggest otherwise.