AI Applications Without a PhD
by Jeremy Howard
Recommended by Miguel de Icaza
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Deep learning is often viewed as the exclusive domain of math PhDs and big tech companies. But as this handson guide demonstrates, programmers comfortable with Python can achieve impressive results in deep learning with little math background, small amounts of data, and minimal code. How With fastai, the first library to provide a consistent inte...
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Miguel de Icaza
“I love the new book not only it teaches you AI in a quite novel way, the paper it is printed on is glorious and printed in full color. Just like “cooking for geeks” changed my life, this one did too. This is a book worth owning in paper”
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Consider Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark. Recommended by 18 sources.
“Life 3.0 reads like a long, wide-ranging conversation with a physicist who loves big if-then thought experiments. The useful part is its panoramic sweep across possible AI futures—from job automation to cosmic colonization—forcing you to consider timelines you might otherwise avoid. The limitation is that the speculative breadth often outruns the depth; chapters can feel meandering, and some readers will find the cosmic-scale scenarios too detached from practical concerns, making it hard to ground in real urgency.”
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