Artificial Intelligence for Humans, Volume 3: Deep Learning and Neural Networks

Really like this book explaining the state of the art in Neural Networks. I first encountered Jeff Heaton's work when i was looking for a neural network to predict forex on the mt4 platform, we used encog at that time. Jeff does not only have a high level view over neural networks, he knows also how to build them from ground up.

Definitly worth its price for the content and the GitHub examples. The content is pretty minimalistic in of itself and is insufficient to have a full understand of deep learning, but there are some really good pointers and simplified explanations to help you get there. I enjoyed the fact that each concept was presented seperatly which helped me get a better undestanding on how neural networks works and what is there underlying philosophie.

Jeff does an excellent job. The book is a little more academic then I would have liked as I normally like to see practical applications as well but his github/class supplements that information fantastically.

The book gives a brief description of the large number of types and techniques for applying neural networks, but never gives the reader any examples of their implementation and how effective they are at solving any of the classic problems. Instead the reader is fed trivia like the definitions of sgn(x), mean, standard deviation, partial derivative or the amazing fact that the second derivative is the derivative of the first derivative. There is nothing like a tutorial anywhere in the book.

I needed to understand the concepts for my job, and come up with ideas in machine learning. This book was a great overview and an addition to my references in machine learning.

The book is more like a quick compilation of a college student's note. Concepts are presented in a relatively isolated manner; connections between concepts are, for the large part, missing. Furthermore, if the materials presented are rather shallow like in this book, readers will expect to see a strong emphasis on, or hands on exercises of, practical applications. But this book doesn't seem to help much in that regard either, despite what the book claims. The book does give introduction to a bunch of models, which can be useful for a beginner. But at least this edition I wouldn't suggest any one to buy because of poor editing. For example, the pseudo code fragments listed in the book are often wrong, or different than what is described by the text. References to formulas, etc need some proof reading, too.

Excellent book , love to buy the next volume. Please go and read the last two. They make up the foundation for this one.

I ran through the book quickly (kindle) and it seems good although I expected much more mathematics involved (Integrals, derivatives, linear algebra). I hope that a new version or a new book will go more in depth with the actual problems...