Interesting on the one hand, but is anybody seriously going to go through those books one by one now? Personally I have troubles going through just one book (Pattern Recognition by Bishop atm), and even that might be useless without practical application. I managed to eventually read through MacKay (enjoyable book and available as a free PDF, too) and feel I have already forgotten most of it again :-(<p>Another way might be to just get going, and pick up knowledge on the way?