Machine Learning and AI with Simple Python and Matlab Scripts

Acknowledgments

I am grateful for the comments that I received about the materials presented in this book from the undergraduate and graduate students who have taken my classes at the City University of New York over the years. Their relentless pursuit of knowledge has always been refreshing. Specifically, I acknowledge the efforts of the following past and present students of the City College of New York:

• Olga Chsherbakova for speedy implementation of Python and Matlab scripts
• Hasan Şuca Kayman for his skill in deriving complex gradients and implementing scripts for recurrent neural network and attention models
• Dr. Samrat S. Batth for contributions to the chapter on financial applications
• Michal Kropiewnicki for critical reading and constructive comments
• Kelvin Ma for his contributions to the manuscript and projects
• Clement McClean for preparing student assignments with admirable ease
• Grace McGrath, Joe Malubay, Jian Wen Choong, Ishmam Fardin and Sultana Begum for contributions to the Alzheimer's disease prognosis scripts
• Ricardo Valdez for his contributions to the manuscript and projects and for his derivation of ANN examples with an impressive show of patience
• Alexander Verzun and Roberto Behar for corrections to the text and scripts

I thank my friend and colleague Prof. Janusz Kusyk for his invaluable contributions on all concepts in this book throughout the chapters.

I thank Prof. Dr. Nina Göksun Say‐Yener for generously sharing Mümtaz Yener's masterpiece Yeni Arkadaş ...