[yobbo]

The topics in that book are good typical "study material" but; 1) we can easily make anyone fail an interview by asking them to derive algorithms or formulas from there, and 2) all these topics predate deep learning, and everything that comes with it.

I agree these are good "filtering" topics, among many others.

[qqqwwweeerrr]

The subject matter in the book is more general than focussing on a specific models; the book is about the statistical underpinnings of ML as a whole.