Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (2003)
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)