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Review: The Welch Labs Illustrated Guide to AI

The Welch Labs Illustrated Guide to AI The Welch Labs Illustrated Guide to AI by Stephen Welch
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This a beautifully conceived and put together text book. I was blown away with the quality of the videos on YT and hence not surprised that the author has managed to put together such a high quality production in physical form. The book is heavy - in terms of weight - which meant it took some time and cost some dollars to ship to Singapore, but it was a joy to find it waiting outside my house. The book is hefty - in that it covers 70 years of machine learning from Rosenblatt’s perceptron to attention models and diffusion.

When I started building neural networks in 1990 there were few accessible textbooks. I had to bribe one computer-scientist author with a bottle of wine to explain how to implement some of self organising algorithms.

This has it all. Diagrams, models, beautiful illustrations and code.

It also has some exercises, and the author has left wide margins for the reader to annotate on… no way… it is too beautiful for that.

Decus Et Tutamen.

I loved the book and gave it Five Stars.

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