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本书的重点不在于教授传统的机器学习算法，而在于教你如何使机器学习算法发挥作用。一些AI的技术课程会给你一个工具，而这本书将教会你如何使用这些工具。如果你渴望成为AI的技术领导者，并想要学习如何为团队设定一个方向，本书将有所帮助。

In recent years, deep learning has fundamentally changed the landscapes of a number of areas in artificial intelligence, including speech, vision, natural language, robotics, and game playing. In particular, the striking success of deep learning in a wide variety of natural language processing (NLP) applications has served as a benchmark for the advances in one of the most important tasks in artificial intelligence.

Preface to the Second Edition There have been substantial changes in the field of neural networks since the first edition of this book in 1998. Some of them have been driven by external factors such as the increase of available data and computing power. The Internet made public massive amounts of labeled and unlabeled data. The ever-increasing raw mass of user-generated and sensed data is made easily accessible by databases and Web crawlers. Nowadays, anyone having an Internet connection can parse the 4,000,000+ articles available on Wikipedia and construct a dataset out of them. Anyone can capture a Web TV stream and obtain days of video content to test their learning algorithm.

《机器学习实战》是2013年由人民邮电出版社出版的书籍，作者是Peter Harrington。机器学习是人工智能研究领域中一个极其重要的研究方向，在现今的大数据时代背景下，捕获数据并从中萃取有价值的信息或模式，成为各行业求生存、谋发展的决定性手段，这使得这一过去为分析师和数学家所专属的研究领域越来越为人们所瞩目。 本书第一部分主要介绍机器学习基础，以及如何利用算法进行分类，并逐步介绍了多种经典的监督学习算法，如k近邻算法、朴素贝叶斯算法、Logistic回归算法、支持向量机、AdaBoost集成方法、基于树的回归算法和分类回归树（CART）算法等。第三部分则重点介绍无监督学习及其一些主要算法：k均值聚类算法、Apriori算法、FP-Growth算法。第四部分介绍了机器学习算法的一些附属工具。 全书通过精心编排的实例，切入日常工作任务，摒弃学术化语言，利用高效的可复用Python代码来阐释如何处理统计数据，进行数据分析及可视化。通过各种实例，读者可从中学会机器学习的核心算法，并能将其运用于一些策略性任务中，如分类、预测、推荐。另外，还可用它们来实现一些更高级的功能，如汇总和简化等。