Bookclub
Notes and links from the book club meetings
Install / Use
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Notes and links from the SDML book club meetings. For slides and videos from other, non-book machine learning talks, please see the SDML talks repo.
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow, 3rd Edition
<img src="https://github.com/SanDiegoMachineLearning/bookclub/blob/master/images/homl3.jfif?raw=true" width="160">Notes/slides and videos from the meetup sessions for the book Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow, which started in August 2025, can be found in the document hands-on-machine-learning-3.md.
Computer Vision
<img src="https://github.com/SanDiegoMachineLearning/bookclub/blob/master/images/Szeliski2ndBookFrontCover.png?raw=true" width="160"> <img src="https://github.com/SanDiegoMachineLearning/bookclub/blob/master/images/PracticalComputerVision.jpg?raw=true" width="400">
The schedule, notes/slides, record links, and additional materials for the meetup sessions for Computer Vision can be found in the document computer-vision.md.
Mathematics for Machine Learning
<img src="https://github.com/SanDiegoMachineLearning/bookclub/blob/master/images/mml-book-cover.jpg?raw=true" width="160">The schedule, notes/slides, record links, and additional materials for the meetup sessions for Mathematics for Machine Learning can be found in the document mathematics-for-machine-learning.md.
Understanding Deep Learning
<img src="https://github.com/SanDiegoMachineLearning/bookclub/blob/master/images/UDLCover.jpg?raw=true" width="160">The schedule, notes/slides, recordings, and additional materials for the meetup sessions for Understanding Deep Learning can be found in the document understanding-deep-learning.md.
Generative AI with Large Language Models (LLMs)
<img src="https://github.com/SanDiegoMachineLearning/bookclub/blob/master/images/DeepLearning_GenAI_with_LLMs.png?raw=true" width="160">SDML is going through this new course by DeepLearning.AI on Coursera
- Kickoff meeting slides and video
- Week 1 discussion slides and video
- Week 2 discussion slides and video
- Week 3 slides and video
Probabilistic Machine Learning: Advanced Topics
<img src="https://github.com/SanDiegoMachineLearning/bookclub/blob/master/images/probml_book2.jpg?raw=true" width="160">Materials for the book reading group for the book Probabilistic Machine Learning: Advanced Topics, which started in January 2023, can be found in the document probabilistic-ml.md.
Learning SQL Queries
<img src="https://github.com/SanDiegoMachineLearning/bookclub/blob/master/images/sqlin10min.jpg?raw=true" width="160">Notes/slides, videos, schedule, and additional materials for the meetup sessions for the Learning SQL series, using the book Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, which started in September 2022, can be found in the document sql-queries.md.
Quantum Computing
<img src="https://github.com/SanDiegoMachineLearning/bookclub/blob/master/images/dancing_with_qubits.png?raw=true" width="160">Videos, schedule, and additional materials for the meetup sessions for the Quantum Computing series, using the book Dancing with Qubits, which started in August 2022, can be found in the document quantum-computing.md.
Machine Learning with Graphs
<img src="https://github.com/SanDiegoMachineLearning/bookclub/blob/master/images/graph.jpg?raw=true" width="160">Notes/slides and videos from the meetup sessions for Machine Learning with Graphs, which started in January 2022, can be found in the document machine-learning-with-graphs.md.
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow, 2nd Edition
<img src="https://github.com/SanDiegoMachineLearning/bookclub/blob/master/images/homl_geron.jpg?raw=true" width="160">Notes/slides and videos from the meetup sessions for the book Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow, which started in October 2021, can be found in the document hands-on-machine-learning.md.
Reinforcement Learning
<img src="https://github.com/SanDiegoMachineLearning/bookclub/blob/master/images/reinforcement-learning.jpg?raw=true" width="160">Notes/slides and videos from the meetup sessions for the book Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction can be found in the document reinforcement-learning.md.
Algorithms to Live By
<img src="https://github.com/SanDiegoMachineLearning/bookclub/blob/master/images/algorithms-to-live-by-paperback-3d.png?raw=true" width="160">For the book Algorithms to Live By, the slides are in Ted's talks repo, and the video is on YouTube.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
<img src="https://github.com/SanDiegoMachineLearning/bookclub/blob/master/images/designing-data-intensive-apps.jpg?raw=true" width="160">Notes and videos from the meetup sessions for the book Designing Data-Intensive Applications can be found in the document designing-data-intensive-apps.md.
Deep Learning with PyTorch
<img src="https://github.com/SanDiegoMachineLearning/bookclub/blob/master/images/deep-learning-with-pytorch.jpg?raw=true" width="160">Notes and videos from the meetup sessions for the book Deep Learning with PyTorch can be found in the document deep-learning-with-pytorch.md.
Feature Engineering for Machine Learning
<img src="https://github.com/tedkyi/feature-engineering/blob/master/feature_engineering.jpg?raw=true" width="160">The book Feature Engineering for Machine Learning by Alice Zheng & Amanda Casari comes with a set of Jupyter notebooks so that you can run the code examples in the book. The notebooks for the book are located in the GitHub repository https://github.com/alicezheng/feature-engineering-book.
The notebook with instructions and code for downloading the datasets not contained in the book repo is located in this repo https://github.com/tedkyi/feature-engineering.
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow, 2nd Edition -- 2019
<img src="https://github.com/SanDiegoMachineLearning/bookclub/blob/master/images/homl_geron.jpg?raw=true" width="160">Jupyter notebooks with code from Hands-On Machine Learning is available in this repo: https://github.com/ageron/handson-ml2.
Natural Language Processing in Action
<img src="https://github.com/SanDiegoMachineLearning/bookclub/blob/master/images/nlpia.jpg?raw=true" width="160">Code for Natural Language Processing in Action by Hobson Lane et al. is available on GitHub: https://github.com/totalgood/nlpia.
Additional information
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