machine learning – Scott J. Pearson’s Book Review

AI & Machine Learning for Coders: A Programmer’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence

By Scott J. Pearson | May 12, 2025May 12, 2025 by Scott J. Pearson

I’m a tad suspicious about listening to books that are too deep in the weeds with code. If they’re about programming concepts, audiobooks can be suitable, but if they involve code like this one, I like to have a physical picture of the lines of code. However, I was pleasantly surprised that this book conveyed many ideas despite communicating code aurally, too. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are huge topics today. I read…

Ultimate Step by Step Guide to Machine Learning Using Python

By Scott J. Pearson | May 4, 2020June 26, 2021 by Scott J. Pearson

The conscientious reader should carefully heed the words of this title. The book functions as an introduction to Python that leads, step by step, to using it with Machine Learning. It takes the shortest and easiest path to get there. As such, it provides fairly immediate gratification for the reader. With such low-hanging fruit, its intended audience is beginners without a lot of knowledge in computer science. For that audience, Anis effectively communicates his message.…