Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms (2014)
I feel like the barrier to machine learning for me, as I've seen in many tutorials and books and is an immediate discouragement, is the massive amount of math thrown in your face. Many of us didn't just graduate, need glasses and fall asleep at 8pm on the couch when the kids are in bed... Math is this distant fragment of memory buried under years of everything not Math.It feels like machine learning is only taught by academia but the majority of the audience is for practical use by the average developer wanting to play with it today.