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Deep Learning

by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville · 2016

A technical introduction to deep learning. The authors provide an online edition; Karpathy’s 2015 recommendation concerned the work while it was being written.

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Documented citation: Suggested as more advanced technical reading.

The concluding learning-resources passage directs advanced readers to the book then being written. This 2015 guidance predates the final 2016 edition; it does not claim he endorsed a later revision or every book claim.

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The concluding learning-resources passage directs advanced readers to the book then being written. This 2015 guidance predates the final 2016 edition; it does not claim he endorsed a later revision or every book claim.

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