Yeah, it's the easiest way to get a beachhead in deep learning and then expand from there. I dislike their heavy use of currying, it's elegant in theory but bad

Yeah, it's the easiest way to get a beachhead in deep learning and then expand from there. I dislike their heavy use of currying, it's elegant in theory but bad error messages make it confusing and inconvenient in practice. But it's a small tradeoff for an otherwise excellent book.