[phunge]

Highly recommended! The first course was the first thing I came across that helped me contextualize the DL field into something that might be relevant for my work. It's a great way to get your hands dirty.

One point of comparison is Cam Davidson Pilon's Bayesian Methods for Hackers, they have a similar vibe: practical applied advice from a field that tilts towards the academic...

[jph00]

That's a very flattering comparison! :) Such a great book - here's a link for those interested in bayesian methods: http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabil...

In fact that book inspired me to create a spreadsheet that implements MCMC in order to make it easy to understand and visualize - we're planning to start an "Introduction to Machine Learning" course in a couple of months where I hope to show off the result of this...