[HN Gopher] David MacKay: Information Theory, Inference, and Lea...
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David MacKay: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning
Algorithms: The Book
Author : malshe
Score : 10 points
Date : 2023-02-01 22:07 UTC (53 minutes ago)
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| ml_basics wrote:
| Great book by a great teacher. I read this during my masters and
| was my route into machine learning.
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| David did many great things but sadly passed away too young in
| 2016, surely would have continued to have a great positive impact
| in the world had he lived longer. His other projects included the
| sustainable energy book https://www.withouthotair.com/ and
| information theory inspired keyboard software for people with
| severe disabilities https://www.bltt.org/software/dasher/
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| I had the honour of being a PhD student in Cambridge during his
| last year of life, and saw him give talks a few times in our lab.
| It's truly a remarkable experience to see someone who is a
| passionate explainer in action. Like how I imagine it must have
| been to see Feynman in the flesh.
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| This is a great short video to get a feel for his style of
| explaining: https://youtu.be/UR8wRSp2IXs
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| (Writing this post feels wrong because he's had such a positive
| impact on my life and those of many others, and this post
| definitely can't do it justice)
| azalemeth wrote:
| His books are fantastic and his writing is captivating. It's
| such a shame he passed -- cancer is a bitch, but the blog post
| about the radiators in the hospice that he died in are one of
| the most heart rending pieces of writing I've come across from
| a mathematician.
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