
Through a series of recent breakthroughs deep learning has boosted the entire field of machine learning Now even programmers who know close to nothing about this technology can use simple efficient tools to implement programs capable of learning from data This practical book shows you how By using concrete examples minimal theory & two production-ready Python frameworks-scikit-learn & Tensor Flow-author Aurelien Geron helps you gain an intuitive understanding of the concepts & tools for building intelligent systems You'll learn a range of techniques starting with simple linear regression & progressing to deep neural networks With exercises in each chapter to help you apply what you've learned all you need is programming experience to get started Explore the machine learning landscape particularly neural nets Use scikit-learn to track an example machine-learning project end-to-end Explore several training models including support vector machines decision trees random forests & ensemble methods Use the Tensor Flow library to build & train neural nets Dive into neural net architectures including convolutional nets recurrent nets & deep reinforcement learning Learn techniques for training & scaling deep neural nets Apply practical code examples without acquiring excessive machine learning theory or algorithm details