[lukejduncan]

This is one of my all time favorite technical books. I wrote a review of sorts a few years back[0]. It doesn’t cover any deep learning topics, which perhaps dates it at this point, but it gives solid fundamentals on a breadth of techniques common in industry. This is always in my recommendation list for folks making the transition from more systems or product engineering to ML.

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/introduction-statistical-lear...

[lukeplato]

Noticed your comment after posting mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24056852

I was wondering if in retrospect you would have preferred reading the Goodfellow deep learning book vs. this?

[disgruntledphd2]

I've read both, and I would strongly recommend ISL first as it's much broader and covers the basics much much better than the Goodfellow book.