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Machine LearningBook

by Tom M. Mitchell

Who uses, recommends or left Machine Learning, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Hamel Husain
Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant; writes about LLM evaluation and tooling at hamel.dev.
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So this one is very classic one. Machine learning by Mitchell. Now, it's kind of theoretical, but the thing I like about it is it um really drives home the fact that AAM's razor is prevalent not only in like science but also in machine learning and AI. So, a lot of times the simplest and also engineering. So like a lot of times the simpler approach generalizes better. And so that's the thing I kind of internalized deeply from that book.

Lenny's Podcast, "Why AI evals are the hottest new skill for product builders", lightning round, asked for the books they recommend most; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).

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