# Deep Learning: Foundations and Concepts by Chris Bishop

3 Hacker News commenters recommended Deep Learning: Foundations and Concepts by Chris Bishop and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended for building intuition and tools for machine learning fundamentals, and a free online version is available on the publisher's site.

## Why people recommend it

- Builds intuition and tools for machine learning (1 comments): "This book equipped me with the right intuition and tools to visualize machine learning." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440317))
- Good starting point for ML fundamentals (1 comments): "If you want to learn the fundamentals of ML I recommend a book" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440212))
- Free online version available (1 comments): "they even have a free online option on their site" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440520))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) by Sebastian Raschka](https://hackerapproved.com/p/build-a-large-language-model.md): 16 recommend
- [Build an LLM from Scratch by Sebastian Raschka](https://hackerapproved.com/p/build-an-llm-from-scratch.md): 8 recommend
- [Python Data Science Handbook by Jake VanderPlas](https://hackerapproved.com/p/python-data-science-handbook.md): 8 recommend
- [The Little Learner by Daniel P. Friedman and Anurag Mendhekar](https://hackerapproved.com/p/little-learner.md): 6 recommend
- [Probabilistic Machine Learning by Kevin Murphy](https://hackerapproved.com/p/probabilistic-machine-learning.md): 5 recommend

## Where to get it

- [See price on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Deep+Learning%3A+Foundations+and+Concepts+by+Chris+Bishop&tag=hackerapprove-20) (affiliate link)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Deep Learning: Foundations and Concepts by Chris Bishop", https://hackerapproved.com/p/deep-learning-foundations-and-concepts/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).