Anil Ananthaswamy

Why Machines Learn

The Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 153mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9781802060867
• ISBN-10: 1802060863
• Artikelnr.: 71809192

Autorenporträt

Anil Ananthaswamy is an award-winning science writer and former staff writer and deputy news editor for New Scientist. He is the author of several popular science books including The Man Who Wasn't There, which was long-listed for the Pen/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. He was a 2019-20 MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow and the recipient of the Distinguished Alum Award, the highest award given by IIT-Madras to its graduates, for his contributions to science writing.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue 1
CHAPTER 1
Desperately Seeking Patterns 7
CHAPTER 2
We Are All Just Numbers Here 26
CHAPTER 3
The Bottom of the Bowl 64
CHAPTER 4
In All Probability 95
CHAPTER 5
Birds of a Feather 144
CHAPTER 6
There’s Magic in Them Matrices 176
CHAPTER 7
The Great Kernel Rope Trick 206
CHAPTER 8
With a Little Help from Physics 242
CHAPTER 9
The Man Who Set Back Deep Learning (Not Really) 277
CHAPTER 10
The Algorithm that Put Paid to a Persistent Myth 302
CHAPTER 11
The Eyes of a Machine 346
CHAPTER 12
Terra Incognita 382
Epilogue 415
Acknowledgments 431
Notes 435
Index 455