The Welch Labs Illustrated Guide to AI
The Welch Labs Illustrated Guide to AI by Welch Labsby Welch Labs
Shares rank 5 of 10 machine learning books by recommenders
People recommend it as a visual introduction to AI from the team behind the Welch Labs videos, and call it a beautiful book that is pleasant to read.
People recommend it as a visual introduction to AI from the team behind the Welch Labs videos, and call it a beautiful book that is pleasant to read.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 3 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: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: 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
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 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
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Visual explanations like the Welch Labs videos
“Welch Labs tends to do amazing explaining topics with visual representation”
Comment from 4 May 2026 in “Yann LeCun's $1B Bet Against LLMs [video]” “it's reminding me of things I learned from Welch Labs vidoes”
Comment from 7 May 2026 in “A Theory of Deep Learning” Beautiful, well-made book people enjoy
“Even 'The Welch Labs Illustrated Guide to AI' is pretty good”
Comment from 11 Jun 2026 in “The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python” “Its a beautiful book that I've enjoyed going through.”
Comment from 7 Jul 2026 in “30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format”
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| 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 | — | — |
| The Welch Labs Illustrated Guide to AIby Welch LabsThis page | 5 | 0 | 100% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
All 5 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Bought because of this comment.”
“Its a beautiful book that I've enjoyed going through.”
“Even 'The Welch Labs Illustrated Guide to AI' is pretty good”
“it's reminding me of things I learned from Welch Labs vidoes”
“Welch Labs tends to do amazing explaining topics with visual representation”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.