Deep Learning: Foundations and Concepts
Deep Learning: Foundations and Concepts by Chris Bishopby Chris Bishop
Shares rank 7 of 10 machine learning books by recommenders
Recommended for building intuition and tools for machine learning fundamentals, and a free online version is available on the publisher's site.
Recommended for building intuition and tools for machine learning fundamentals, and a free online version is available on the publisher's site.
3 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 3
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 3 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Builds intuition and tools for machine learning
“This book equipped me with the right intuition and tools to visualize machine learning.”
Comment from 8 Jun 2026 in “The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python” Good starting point for ML fundamentals
“If you want to learn the fundamentals of ML I recommend a book”
Comment from 8 Jun 2026 in “The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python” Free online version available
“they even have a free online option on their site”
Comment from 8 Jun 2026 in “The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python”
Other machine learning books people recommend
The four most recommended other machine learning books, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)by Sebastian Raschka | 16 | 0 | 100% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Build an LLM from Scratchby Sebastian Raschka | 8 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | — |
| Python Data Science Handbookby Jake VanderPlas | 8 | 0 | 100% | 2 | — | — |
| The Little Learnerby Daniel P. Friedman and Anurag Mendhekar | 6 | 2 | 75% | 2 | — | — |
| Deep Learning: Foundations and Conceptsby Chris BishopThis page | 3 | 0 | 100% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
All 3 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“they even have a free online option on their site”
“This book equipped me with the right intuition and tools to visualize machine learning.”
“If you want to learn the fundamentals of ML I recommend a book”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.