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A Simple Guide to Machine Learning with Decision Trees
- kayall 9y agoI'm usually not for people pushing books on HN like this, but this is entirely too relevant to my interests not to thank you for posting this. Visualizing my processes has by far been the hardest part of getting my CS degree, and I have a professor this semester as well as next that is obsessed with machine learning.
- iovrthoughtthis 9y agoSo. I can't buy this free book because I'm in the UK? What?
- CrazyCatDog 9y agoOnly free if you pay a monthly kindle subscription--which apparently does not extend into the UK.
- vowelless 9y agoHmm, seems like it's free to read too. Maybe it's free for Prime customers?
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- Afton 9y agoUS based, Prime customer here. They seem to want me to sign up for kindle unlimited before I can read/buy it.
- evgen 9y agoThere are two buttons on the page, one for 'read it for free via kindle unlimited' and one for 'buy the book'. You naturally go for the first button that leads to a kindle unlimited signup form, but when you look closely at the page you will see that the price of the book is $0.00 so if you just 'buy' the book you get it for free without the kindle unlimited BS.
- codazoda 9y agoThanks for this... Because of the big push to Kindle Unlimited, I didn't realize the Kindle edition was actually free without the subscription.
- pbalau 9y agoIt's available in uk too, via Kindle Unlimited. I think I got that with Prime. Please note, you won't buy the book, but borrow it. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Decision-Trees-Random-Forests-Introduction-ebook/dp/B078J8GFGC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522262232&sr=8-1&keywords=Decision+Trees+and+Random+Forests https://www.amazon.co.uk/Decision-Trees-Random-Forests-Intro... ?
- iovrthoughtthis 9y agoThis concept of free doesn't really align with my concept of free.
- ollin 9y agoVery high level, but I think http://www.r2d3.us/ http://www.r2d3.us/ is actually a pretty good visual intro, although it skips over information gain/CART metrics.
- gregrata 9y agowow, that is nicely done!
- zombieprocesses 9y agoIs this an ad? News? What are we supposed to do with this submission? How did this make it to the frontpage?
- grzm 9y ago> "How did this make it to the frontpage?" From the FAQ: (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) > "How are stories ranked?" > "The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted. Comments in comment threads are ranked the same way." > "Other factors affecting rank include user flags, anti-abuse software, software which downweights overheated discussions, and moderator intervention." --- > "What are we supposed to do with this submission?" From the guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html): > "Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it." If you've got more substantive criticism of the piece: skip the other stuff and dive right into that.