Deep Learning
Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville
47 people recommended it in 14 threads, 2016–2025.
2 commenters pushed back on it — worth reading the threads.
What people on Hacker News said
My favorite aspect of this book is that it provides a graphical models interpretation of DL methods, which is the most powerful perspective we have right now to reason about model design (instead of some large black box function that we train end-to-end without knowing what's in between).
If you understand the models here, you should be able to understand the design choices made in more complex architectures.
It's a language you need to learn, especially if you want to try and get to the bottom of how and why aspects of deep learning work the way they do.
"Deep Learning" - by Goodfellow and Bengio. Just started, but really liking it.
Part of the problem in writing a deep learning book, is that very little that warrants being in a book, is actually known.
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