SHLOMO KASHANI
DEEP LEARNING INTERVIEWS
By Shlomo Kashani, M.Sc, QMUL, UK.
Published by Shlomo Kashani, Tel-Aviv, ISRAEL.
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FOREWORD.
We will build a machine that will fly .
Joseph Michael Montgolfier, French Inventor/Aeronaut (1740-1810)
EEP learning interviews are technical, dense, and thanks to the fields competitiveness, often high-stakes. The prospect of preparing for one can be daunting, and the fear of failure can be paralyzing and many interviewees find their ideas slipping away alongside their confidence.
This book was written for you: an aspiring data scientist with a quantitative background, facing down the gauntlet of the interview process in an increasingly competitive field. For most of you, the interview process is the most significant hurdle between you and a dream job. Even though you have the ability, the background, and the motivation to excel in your target position, you might need some guidance on how to get your foot in the door.
Though this book is highly technical it is not too dense to work through quickly. It aims to be comprehensive, including many of the terms and topics involved in modern data science and deep learning. That thoroughness makes it unique; no other single work offers such breadth of learning targeted so specifically at the demands of the interview.
Most comparable information is available in a variety of formats, locations, structures, and resourcesblog posts, tech articles, and short books scattered across the internet. Those resources are simply not adequate to the demands of deep learning interview or exam preparation and were not assembled with this explicit purpose in mind. It is hoped that this book does not suffer the same shortcomings.
HIS books creation was guided by a few key principles: clarity and depth, thoroughness and precision, interest and accuracy. The volume was designed for use by job seekers in the fields of machine learning and deep learning whose abilities and background locate them firmly within STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). The book will still be of use to other readers, such as those still undergoing their initial education in a STEM field.
However, it is tailored most directly to the needs of active job seekers and students attending M.Sc/Ph.D programmes in AI . It is, in any case, a book for engineers, mathematicians, and computer scientists: nowhere does it include the kind of very basic background material that would allow it to be read by someone with no prior knowledge of quantitative and mathematical processes.
The books contents are a large inventory of numerous topics relevant to deep learning job interviews and graduate level exams. Ideas that are interesting or pertinent have been excluded if they are not valuable in that context. That places this work at the forefront of the growing trend in education and in business to emphasize a core set of practical mathematical and computational skills. It is now widely understood that the training of every computer scientist must include a course dealing with the fundamental theorems of machine learning in a rigorous manner; Deep Learning appears in the curriculum of nearly every university; and this volume is designed as a convenient ongoing reference for graduates of such courses and programs.
The book is grounded in both academic expertise and on-the-job experience and thus has two goals. First, it compresses all of the necessary information into a coherent package. And second, it renders that information accessible and makes it easy to navigate. As a result, the book helps the reader develop a thorough understanding of the principles and concepts underlying practical data science. None of the textbooks I read met all of those needs, which are: