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		poster123 on July 1, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning Thanks for the recommendations. Devroye wrote several books, and I assume the one being mentioned is "A Probabilistic Theory of Pattern Recognition".

srean on July 1, 2018 [–]

Yes that's the one I had in mind. His other books are also very good, but are more specialized.

You may also enjoy graycat's comments on HN. He know his math but is contrarian about machine learning but its good to have that view point.

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