My deep learning books are published!

This book is for programmers, scientists, artists, engineers, physicians, musicians, and anyone else who wants to understand how deep learning works, and harness the tools for their own work.

The tone is friendly and informal. Rather than math, I used words and 1000 original illustrations to communicate the ideas. The book is appropriate for any hardware, programming language, or library you like. In order to give concrete examples, I provide 72 Jupyter notebooks full of Python code that demonstrate the ideas in the book, and create all of the computer-generated figures.

You can download Volume 1 or Volume 2 right now! They’re formatted for Kindle. Amazon offers a free Kindle reader for just about any device with a screen. I recommend reading the book on a color device, so you can get the most out of the color figures.

You can learn more about the book at https://dlbasics.com.

I love writing in Markdeep. It’s Markdown on steroids. I just wrote a whole book in Markdeep and loved it. Markdeep writes files for web browsers, and it works great for that.

When it was time to publish my book, it was important to me to have gorgeous typography, and manual control over where every figure was placed. Those qualities are hard to get out of a web browser. So I looked at professional layout tools, and chose Adobe’s InDesign.

This is a great program with a ton of features and capabilities, but I struggled for a few days to find a good workflow to get from Markdeep to InDesign. I eventually hit on a process that worked for me, and once I had it figured out, layout was a breeze. In this short document, I describe my workflow in case you want to do something similar.