Why Machines Learn
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Why Machines Learn
| Full title | Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI |
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| Author | Anil Ananthaswamy |
| Published | 2024 |
| Pages | 480 |
| Recommended | 3 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Anil Ananthaswamy works through the mathematics under modern machine learning — the perceptron, gradient descent, backpropagation, the kernel trick — at the level of actually following the derivations. The industry answer for AI if you want the mechanism, not the narrative. |
Where I heard about it
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Spotted at Barnes & Noble at Fashion Place, Murray — November 2024 (Books photo album)
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Spotted at Powell’s Books at PDX — April 2026 (Books photo album)
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Replies to @WillManidis — named in the replies to his question “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?”, June 2025. Full list: what is the single best book… (tweet).
Connections
- Machine Learning — the subject, taken mathematically.
- Artificial Intelligence — what the math is being used to build.
- Genius Makers — the people-and-companies history of the same field, named in a different thread Kyle saved.
- what is the single best book… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.