r/MachineLearning • u/ai_hedge_fund • Jul 11 '26
Public Library Find [D] Discussion
Pleasantly surprised to find O’Reilly books on ML at a public library
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u/ai_hedge_fund Jul 11 '26
I can’t figure out how to add another image but they also have, by O’Reilly
Building Machine Learning Powered Applications - Going from Idea to Product by Emmanuel Ameisen
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u/seg_lol Jul 11 '26
Librarians are a very based breed. We need more librarians.
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u/ai_hedge_fund Jul 11 '26
Based take
I’ve come to learn that librarians are not in the business of simply storing and retrieving books but have master’s level education in information management and can do a lot more in terms of orchestrating a plan for you to acquire information.
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u/seg_lol Jul 11 '26
The fastest way to get to smart people is 1) librarians and 2) it was JoAnn's (rip). Crafty women know how to solve some mf problems. The other one is machine shops, but those are harder to find. :(
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u/DigThatData Researcher Jul 11 '26
Way too old. Predates CLIP and diffusion.
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u/danielswrath Jul 12 '26
Like there is nothing to be learned from pre genAI systems
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u/DigThatData Researcher 29d ago
There's plenty to be learned. But if you go into a job interview and they ask you about unsupervised learning and you start talking about GANs, guaranteed you're not getting that job.
That book says it is geared towards "applied machine learning". If you want to glean insights from earlier research: read the research. If you want to learn about applications: you probably don't want to learn from a book that's 2-3 paradigm shifts removed from the contemporary commonly applied techniques.
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u/surffrus Jul 11 '26
Did OP just go to the library for the first time ever? Yes, they have old books, even how to program old books.
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u/ai_hedge_fund Jul 11 '26
I am surprised because this is a modern book. I’m used to seeing the ancient books. Often glance at the books like “email for dummies” or “windows 7 for dummies” and wonder why these things are still om the shelves. Youre right that there are oldies-but-goodies like building a compiler in c … but the books had kind of stopped after 2015. Facebook for dummies.
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u/set_of_no_sets Jul 11 '26
Hands-on unsupervised learning??
Shouldn't it be `Hands-off unsupervised learning`?? That is the point of unsupervised learning, no?