Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Christopher Bishopby Christopher Bishop
Shares rank 7 of 10 machine learning books by recommenders
People recommend it as a useful and informative book on pattern recognition and machine learning, good enough to keep on a bookshelf.
People recommend it as a useful and informative book on pattern recognition and machine learning, good enough to keep on a bookshelf.
4 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 3
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 75%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: 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.
- 3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 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
Useful and informative
“I still find his pattern recognition book useful and informative.”
Comment from 8 Jun 2026 in “The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python” Worth keeping on a bookshelf
“enough to earn it a spot on my bookshelf”
Comment from 8 Jun 2026 in “The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python”
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| 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 | — | — |
| Pattern Recognition and Machine Learningby Christopher BishopThis page | 3 | 1 | 75% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
2 of the 4 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“enough to earn it a spot on my bookshelf”
“I still find his pattern recognition book useful and informative.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.