Free Textbooks on Machine Learning(metaoptimize.com) |
Free Textbooks on Machine Learning(metaoptimize.com) |
I really like that quote from Good Will Hunting. Unfortunately, most of us aren't savants and there's a lot more that goes into learning something than finding one free textbook on it.
I think we're starting to see a lot more free textbooks because we're learning that, when it comes to education, resources are not as important as practice, community, and engagement
For example, a free textbook can be referred to. "For a more detailed discussion of this read chapter 4 of Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning."
Perhaps because they are realizing that people aren't buying them? I'm sure they don't have to be free though, but rather just not expensive.
I've seen this happen quite often lately, and usually these kind of posts go up in the ranks pretty quickly -- they also generate near zero discussion :-)
Discussion: guess somebody will post more links to some good technical material or post some useful comments.
2) Perhaps you're being shortsighted. Popular educational submissions now could seed wider, educated submissions/discussion later. The immediate number of comments doesn't necessarily encompass the entire value of a submission towards discussion on HN.
Those books might get handy in the future.