I haven't read more than a chapter, but for the most part it makes sense. Sometimes they reference methods in their pseudo code without giving any explanation as to what that method should do or be returning and that can be frustrating, but overall pretty good stuff. The method they focus on is good, just the helper functions sometimes get left out in the cold.
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This gives the wrong cover page. It's a cover page of English edition used in US colleges. But actually I received the International Edition of this book, while my class needs the English edition, which is normally used in US colleges. Their main contents are the same, however, the exercises in the textbooks are quite different. So before you buy it, please make sure which edition you want.
The book is great but it arrived a little damaged
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The definitive text book for new students
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This is now the canonical book for introductory AI classes. Some math is required, the appendix goes over the bare essentials and you will probably have to pick up a copy of Strang to do the Linear Algebra and your run of the mill Stats for engineer book to get a quick exposition of probability. Otherwise, the book is an excellent reference. The international edition is generally a good buy.
mostly collection of narrative, analysis and brain dump designed for academics not for beginners with any clear take away.
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Great textbook, quite helpful for my Machine Learning class at UC Berkeley (CS 194-10). However, the Machine Learning sections are by no means 'complete' - for instance, the section on SVM's is only a few pages, whereas there exist textbooks dedicated to SVM's! Think of this as a 'light' introduction to all of AI (which is a vast field!).
A solid book on the subject. Mathematical background is good but not necessarily required; the back of the book explains much of the math used, and examples tend to be in pseudocode.
I bought this book mainly because it is the best reviewed book about AI . They are right. This book is simply the best general textbook about the subject. It is well explained and it tries to put all the topics in a general framework (the agent paradigm).
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