The sections on Regularization and Dropout have some amazing prose. I haven't read any of the other chapters, but just skimming through those sections have help

The sections on Regularization and Dropout have some amazing prose. I haven't read any of the other chapters, but just skimming through those sections have helped enlighten me on quite a few things that have confused me for years in completely different mediums...Such as why a random forest made up of randomly selected simple CARTs generally predicts better than a single complex CART, or why fitting a distribution to empirical data can benefit from using AIC or BIC methods.