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These guys are great but unfortunately the ai sutton and barto book is really bad. You would do better with Grokking Machine Learning by trask, and then a coup
by wegfawefgawefg 2y ago
These guys are great but unfortunately the ai sutton and barto book is really bad.
You would do better with Grokking Machine Learning by trask, and then a couple months of implementing ml papers.
- Buttons840 2y agoI second this suggestion. Read Grokking Deep Reinforcement Learning before reading Sutton. Well, the Sutton book is free, so take a peak, but if the formulas scare you then read Grokking Deep Reinforcement Learning.
- 317070 2y agoThese books are about different topics? Sutton and Barto is about Reinforcement learning, and the other book you mention by Trask is on Deep Learning?
- wegfawefgawefg 2y agoThe sutton and barto book is often given as an introductory ai book to people with no experience in ai or rl. This is unfortunate as it functions as neither a good rl book nor a good ai book. Wheras the introductory book Grokking Deep Learning walks you through implementing your own pytorch, and has a portion about rl near the end, then has a follow up book on rl, and it is trivial to have your own from scratch model and framework playing tic tac toe, snake, even without any math skills beyond multiplication. This happens without just smacking the reader with the modified bellman equation, and a bunch of chain rule backwards, and padded paragraphs intended to sell additional versions to universities.