Deep Learning Quick Reference

Foreword

I first met Mike Bernico when we were two of the founding members of a new data science team at a Fortune 50 company. Then, it was a heady time; there wasn't such a thing as formal data science education, so we were all self-taught. We were a collection of adventurous people from diverse backgrounds, who identified and learned data science techniques because we needed them to solve the problems that we were interested in. We built a team with an optimistic hacker approach—the belief that we could find and apply techniques "from the wild" to build interesting, useful things.

It is in this practical, scrappy spirit that Mike wrote Deep Learning Quick Reference book. Deep learning is frequently made out to be mysterious and difficult; ...