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Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems

Aurélien Géron · 3 HN comments
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Through a series of recent breakthroughs, deep learning has boosted the entire field of machine learning. Now, even programmers who know close to nothing about this technology can use simple, efficient tools to implement programs capable of learning from data. This practical book shows you how.By using concrete examples, minimal theory, and two production-ready Python frameworks—Scikit-Learn and Tensor Flow—author Aurélien Géron helps you gain an intuitive understanding of the concepts and tools for building intelligent systems. You’ll learn a range of techniques, starting with simple linear regression and progressing to deep neural networks. With exercises in each chapter to help you apply what you’ve learned, all you need is programming experience to get started.Explore the machine learning landscape, particularly neural netsUse Scikit-Learn to track an example machine-learning project end-to-endExplore several training models, including support vector machines, decision trees, random forests, and ensemble methodsUse the Tensor Flow library to build and train neural netsDive into neural net architectures, including convolutional nets, recurrent nets, and deep reinforcement learningLearn techniques for training and scaling deep neural nets.
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Sorry, but I absolutely do not recommend it. It is too much theory for a beginner. Instead, I'd recommend "Hands on Machine Learning with Scikit & Keras". Decent theory + lots of practice. https://www.amazon.com/Hands-Machine-Learning-Scikit-Learn-T...
Can you elaborate what you would do with machine learning techniques? In what capacity? I'd love to understand what problems you have.

Generally speaking, a great book to start with is this - https://www.amazon.com/Hands-Machine-Learning-Scikit-Learn-T...

OK, since it is for a teenager I would assume just basic computer competency (how to install programs and stuff like that) but nothing else, so apologies if some of these things are pretty obvious/basic..

I would (assuming zilch knowledge and tools).

- Install Python. https://www.python.org/downloads/

- Install VSC https://code.visualstudio.com/

- Install the python extension for VSC https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-pytho...

- learn a little bit of python. This is a good resource, but there are several more, even the official documentation is very good

http://openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english3e/

- After some familiarity with python one option is this free book:

http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/

- Another, good (but paid) option is this book: https://www.amazon.com/Hands-Machine-Learning-Scikit-Learn-T...

Or a third option is indeed Andrew Ng's course.

Now, for any of those 3 options a little (or a lot) of guidance and patience will be needed so hopefully you or some friend/peer can help with that. Good luck!

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