Shoutout to my college professor who just made his machine learning book free! I particularly like the book in that it explains the pure computer science and m

Shoutout to my college professor who just made his machine learning book free! I particularly like the book in that it explains the pure computer science and mathematical ideas behind machine learning, model building and validation, without relying on any particular software package. If you are looking for a book that conveys knowledge rather than a glorified tutorial on machine learning, this is it. Each chapter is written with incremental difficulty, so that one can read up until (hopefully a bit beyond) his/her maths comfort zone. The book is also entertaining, if anything just read the first paragraph of each chapter and look at the first illustrations! Additional info here: http://intelligent-optimization.org/LIONbook http://intelligent-optimization.org/LIONbook