or this which includes good backgrounders on lin.alg, probability and stat, http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1jeawf/machine_learning_books/ htt

or this which includes good backgrounders on lin.alg, probability and stat, http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1jeawf/machine_learning_books/ http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1jeawf/mach... Or http://www.electronicsforu.com/newelectronics/articles/hitscc.asp?id=12580&group_type=cool_stuff http://www.electronicsforu.com/newelectronics/articles/hitsc... this is an excellent review (but doesn't cover books by Mohri, Rostamizadeh, Talwalkar and Abu-Mostafa , Magdon-Ismail, Lin: http://www.amazon.com/review/R32N9EIEOMIPQU/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0262018020 http://www.amazon.com/review/R32N9EIEOMIPQU/ref=cm_cr_pr_per...