Andrew W. Trask - Grokking Deep Learning

Im exceedingly grateful for everyone who has contributed to the production of Grokking Deep Learning. First and foremost, Id like to thank the amazing team at Manning: Bert Bates, who taught me how to write; Christina Taylor, who patiently kept me going for three years; Michael Stephens, whose creativity has allowed the book to have great success even before publication; and Marjan Bace, whose encouragement in the midst of delays made all the difference.

Grokking Deep Learning wouldnt be what it is without the immense contributions of early readers through email, Twitter, and GitHub. I feel greatly indebted to Jascha Swisher, Varun Sudhakar, Francois Chollet, Frederico Vitorino, Cody Hammond, Mauricio Maroto Arrieta, Aleksandar Dragosavljevic, Alan Carter, Frank Hinek, Nicolas Benjamin Hocker, Hank Meisse, Wouter Hibma, Joerg Rosenkranz, Alex Vieira, and Charlie Harrington for all your help refining the text and the online code repository.

Id like to thank the reviewers who took time to read the manuscript at various stages in development: Alexander A. Myltsev, Amit Lamba, Anand Saha, Andrew Hamor, Cristian Barrientos, Montoya, Eremey Valetov, Gerald Mack, Ian Stirk, Kalyan Reddy, Kamal Raj, Kelvin D. Meeks, Marco Paulo dos Santos Nogueira, Martin Beer, Massimo Ilario, Nancy W. Grady, Peter Hampton, Sebastian Maldonado, Shashank Gupta, Tymoteusz Woodko, Kumar Unnikrishnan, Vipul Gupta, Will Fuger, and William Wheeler.

Im also grateful to Mat and Niko at Udacity, who included the book in Udacitys Deep Learning Nanodegree, which greatly aided in early awareness of the book among young deep learning practitioners.

I must thank Dr. William Hooper, who let me wander into his office and bug him about computer science, who made an exception to let me into his (already full) Programming 1 class, and who inspired me to pursue a career in deep learning. I am exceedingly thankful for all the patience you had with me starting out. You have blessed me immensely.

Finally, Id like to thank my wife for being so patient with me during all the nights and weekends spent working on the book, for copyediting the entire text several times herself, and for creating and debugging the online GitHub code repository.