A new book in the same series as The Little Schemer!<p>Here's a preview of the first two chapters: <a href="https://mitpress.ublish.com/ebook/the-little-learner-a-straight-line-to-deep-learning-preview/12735/C1" rel="nofollow">https://mitpress.ublish.com/ebook/the-little-learner-a-strai...</a>
The initial preview is a little disappointing because it feels like it does a great job displaying the pedagogical style but not enough to demonstrate the pedagogical value (i.e. whether this resource actually does a good job teaching a complex topic).<p>Given the wealth of information and the problem of appraising it all, I don't think it helps this book that it costs $55 and requires the reader to learn an esoteric language (for the field), when there are so many educational books and lecture series by experts in the field that you can find freely available online.
If this is anything like the others in the series. I really like the style of the others; it is a really good way of learning for me. And the little prover&typer was when I already was well versed in the theory but they were really good to work through nonetheless.<p>So yep, must have. If you haven’t read the rest, they are really must haves imho.
No way. Does it use Scheme?<p>EDIT: Half Life 3 confirmed: "Presents key ideas of machine learning using a small, manageable subset of the Scheme language"
This looks interesting, though I'd probably do at LEAST little schemer finally before checking this one out (been meaning to pick up some of the Little x books but haven't, though I've been getting back to lisp through CL on things like PAIP).
Wow, I would really like to get this book to complete my set of the Little Schemer, the Seasoned Schemer and the Reasoned Schemer. But 55$ is almost twice as expensive as the other books. Yes, it is bigger than those but still...<p>Have to think about this for a while :)