Marleen Mar 06, 2021

The first three chapters of this book provide an introduction to TensorFlow 2 (TF) in general as well as some TF specific operations/syntax which is very handy to know! And the third chapter on the introduction is related to Keras.Then the book continues with a chapter on Linear Regression. I got a bit confused here because this chapters also discusses Logistic Regressions and others, which are all known as linear models, I just didn't expect to find logistic regression in here - a pleasant surprise!The chapter on Boosted Trees was missing structure I find. This one, the Transformers chapter and the RL chapter are definitely for readers that know how those models work and are just looking for implementation advise using TF.Then finally, my favourite chapters: various Neural Networks and the Deploying models to PRD. Those pages were filled with very well designed examples and I enjoyed going through them a lot!Therefore overall, this book will definitely help you understand how to use TensorFlow, but if you expect to learn the models used as well, you might need an additional book with more theory on e.g. Reinforcement Learning.The examples accompanying the book are all very straight forward and easy to follow along. This book is definitely a buy if you buy it for the purpose of learning TF!!(Site-note: I wish for other RL examples in books that have chapters on RL. It seems like many use the same.)

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Samuel de Zoete Jul 20, 2021

"Getting Ready! How to do it...! How it works...!" is the structure of the recipes in the book and it works for me. The explanations are short and straight to the point, I personally love when a learning book is concise. Plenty of resource suggestions if deep dive is necessary or brushing up on certain knowledge, e.g. Matrix Computations. I would suggest, download the code from GitHub and use Google Colab with the book. I read the book from my iPad and code on my laptop, it's perfect for me this way.When reading the book it provided me a good reference and framework how to setup, design and use TensorFlow. I usually use the Keras Interface, beyond that, it seems all a bit 'difficult', but this book gives me the confidence that directly using TF is now an option when it's needed.

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Vicky Apr 29, 2021

The book is an extraordinary asset for those keen on applying complex data computations using TensorFlow.It is somewhat light on detailed theoretical explanations but provides resourceful insights for building production-ready modules in real-world scenarios. I would recommend it if you are either already familiar with basic ML theory and the math background or if you have a software engineering background and are simply looking to implement an ML solution with Tensorflow.

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Mihai Maruseac Apr 23, 2021

I really enjoyed reading this book. I tried to judge it based on how someone new to the Machine Learning field would feel when reading it as well as on how someone with deep expertise would. I am happy to report that I think both types of readers would enjoy reading the book.The book is a collection of recipes on how to solve various ML tasks using TF. It uses TF 2.x, the more modern version of TensorFlow but still has mentions for relevant TF 1.x features, as they are needed in some places of the prose.Each recipe starts from the first line of code and finishes with a fully working example, including output documentation. There are also explanations for the output and sometimes even suggestions for different avenues of experimentation.The first few chapters are very introductory. A reader would learn how to use raw TF API to create an ML model, then how to become better and more efficient by using higher level APIs, such as Keras and tf.data (and Estimators but these are TF 1.x features, so the corresponding chapter should be read with a view on the past history of TF).The last part of the book focuses on solutions for different ML tasks. Image processing, NLP, reinforcement learning, are all topics that are touched and presented at a reasonable level.

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JOSET Mar 20, 2021

Really interesting and relevant book for the use of Temsorflow!Well done to the writers and Alexia!

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