I took a grad ML course based on this book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0759M2D9H https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0759M2D9H It teaches you the foundational theory be

I took a grad ML course based on this book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0759M2D9H https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0759M2D9H It teaches you the foundational theory behind ML, and shows how the fancier stuff is built on it. Good to know the foundations, so you can branch outside of predefined ML techniques.