[HN Gopher] David MacKay: Information Theory, Inference, and Lea... ___________________________________________________________________ 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) (HTM) web link (inference.org.uk) (TXT) w3m dump (inference.org.uk) | ml_basics wrote: | Great book by a great teacher. I read this during my masters and | was my route into machine learning. | | 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/ | | 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. | | This is a great short video to get a feel for his style of | explaining: https://youtu.be/UR8wRSp2IXs | | (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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-02-01 23:00 UTC)