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Ask HN: Best book about artificial neural networks?

• T-A 11y ago
  For AI, I think this is still the Bible: http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ Neural networks are moving fast. A notable attempt featuring one of the heavyweights, under preparation: http://goodfeli.github.io/dlbook/ http://goodfeli.github.io/dlbook/ Meanwhile there is this recent review by the three main suspects: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v521/n7553/full/nature14539.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v521/n7553/full/nature1...
• rayalez 11y ago
  I have recently wrote an article collecting the best AI resources: https://medium.com/@rayalez/best-deep-learning-resources-76b24c67f9e https://medium.com/@rayalez/best-deep-learning-resources-76b... Specifically, I would reccommend AIMA as the best introduction to AI in general, and a fantastic video course from Berkeley: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCshmLD2MsyqAKBx8ctivb5Q/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCshmLD2MsyqAKBx8ctivb5Q/vid... and also Andrew Ng's course on coursera: https://www.coursera.org/course/ml https://www.coursera.org/course/ml For neural networks there's an awesome course by Hinton: https://class.coursera.org/neuralnets-2012-001/lecture https://class.coursera.org/neuralnets-2012-001/lecture and UFLDL tutorial: http://deeplearning.stanford.edu/wiki/index.php/UFLDL_Tutorial http://deeplearning.stanford.edu/wiki/index.php/UFLDL_Tutori...
• p1esk 11y ago
  For NN from scratch, there's nothing better than this book: http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/ http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/
  • TheAlchemist 11y ago
    I cannot agree more - by far the best introduction to NN. Also, Hugo Larochelle videos are remarkable, though a bit tougher to understand.
• freddealmeida 11y ago
  For neural nets, consider Bengio's book: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~bengioy/dlbook/ http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~bengioy/dlbook/ For something lighter but insightful, Pedro Domingo's The Master Algorithm is quite fun. A great number of classes are now available online. I prefer the Stanford classes. http://cs229.stanford.edu/ http://cs229.stanford.edu/ and http://cs224d.stanford.edu/ http://cs224d.stanford.edu/ are good places to start. There are more.
• argonaut 11y ago
  A lot of people are suggesting some bad things. Some people might take issue with this, but as far as resources/classes/research groups in academia/textbooks go, AI != machine learning. And neural networks are a subset of machine learning. The AIMA book is the best introduction to AI, but only to traditional AI, which consists mostly of planning/search/inference algorithms (brute force algorithms, albeit clever brute force algorithms). It is not a book on machine learning, even if it talks a bit about machine learning. The Deep Learning book that people mention is not an introductory book on the subject of neural networks or machine learning. Your best bet is Andrew Ng's Coursera course as an introduction to ML and neural nets.
• tmaly 11y ago
  My favorite was Practical Neural Network Recipies in C++ by Masters. It was very accessible and easy to understand.
• mindcrash 11y ago
  Jeff Heaton has written a slew nice AI related books http://www.heatonresearch.com/book/index.html http://www.heatonresearch.com/book/index.html "Introduction to the Math of Neural Networks" is a really great book to start with if your math skills are on college algebra level.