Confessions of a Book Pirate (2010)
Book piracy is a big reason I&#x27;ve been able to learn as much as I know about ML.<p>I don&#x27;t know how to feel about it. All I know is that I&#x27;m more effective than I would&#x27;ve been if I had to pay for the books, since I wouldn&#x27;t have read anything.<p>It&#x27;s common on HN to pretend that everyone here is an affluent programmer working for FAANG with $500k&#x2F;yr in stock vesting. In reality, I&#x27;ve spoken to many who are more along the lines of &quot;month to month paycheck.&quot; Dropping $50 on a book about Tensorflow just isn&#x27;t in the cards.<p>Yet the outrage is extreme, and probably justified: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18047297#18049297" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18047297#18049297</a><p>I apologize to the authors of the books I&#x27;ve absorbed. No doubt you&#x27;ve worked exceptionally hard. For what it&#x27;s worth, I do recommend your books to others who may be in a position to buy them.<p>I like:<p>- Hands-on Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and Tensorflow, 2nd Edition<p>- IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook 2nd Edition<p>- Nick McClure - TensorFlow Machine Learning Cook (2017)<p>These are easily found on Library Genesis, which has become my de facto study.