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Can't recommend this highly enough, if for no other reason than to provide some context to help the OP from getting trapped in the "deep learning is all you need" echo-chamber. Sure ANN's and DL are great and do amazing things, but until it's proven that they really are the "be all, end all" (something I suspect we're far from) then it makes sense to dedicate at least some cycles to considering other paradigms.