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The concluding learning-resources passage directs advanced readers to the book then being written. This 2015 guidance predates the final 2016 edition; it does not claim he endorsed a later revision or every book claim.

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Andrej Karpathy · 2015-10-25 · accessed 2026-10-02

Article · Original written source

The concluding learning-resources passage directs advanced readers to the book then being written. This 2015 guidance predates the final 2016 edition; it does not claim he endorsed a later revision or every book claim.

Existing catalog work. Recommendation predates 2016 publication; do not assert later-edition endorsement.

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Sebastian Raschka · undated · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Historical personal study-plan recommendations

Explicitly recommends the upcoming Deep Learning manuscript after ML/statistical foundations.

In the conclusion of his 2015 article, Karpathy points beginners to Michael Nielsen’s tutorials. This is historical guidance about that work, not an endorsement of every later revision or a modern software setup.

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Andrej Karpathy · 2015-10-25 · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Original written source

The conclusion directs beginners to Michael Nielsen’s tutorials and links neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com. Nielsen’s own companion repository identifies the linked work as his book Neural Networks and Deep Learning. Recommendation wording here is a paraphrase, not a direct quote.

2020 book strongly computer vision focused, no transformers/LLMs; requires Python; source says introductory for experienced practitioners.

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Sebastian Raschka · 2021-01-21 · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Personal book review

Original independent review says beginners may start with this book and experts may find chapter3 worthwhile; positive reader-facing verdict, without payment/review copy.

Historical 2020 print and then-current online book; source notes evolving contents. Do not describe current online edition as the endorsed edition.

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Sebastian Raschka · 2020-08-26 · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Personal book review

Original independent review explicitly recommends the book; declares no author affiliation or review copy.

Historical pre-2016 advice; source explicitly identifies first edition. Do not imply recommendation of later edition with additional coauthor.

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Sebastian Raschka · undated · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Historical personal study-plan recommendations

Original personal beginner curriculum explicitly recommends the following item, Introduction to Data Mining (First Edition, 2005).

Historical study-plan recommendation. The source citation lists 2012; the publisher dates the second edition to 2000. No edition/year is asserted for this work-level catalog record.

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Sebastian Raschka · undated · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Historical personal study-plan recommendations

Raschka suggests deepening statistical learning knowledge using one of three named books in a personal reading/study plan. This is an explicit reading-list context, not mere course bibliography.

Undated historical pre-2016 study plan; publisher verifies first edition2006, sole author Christopher M. Bishop.

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Sebastian Raschka · undated · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Historical personal study-plan recommendations

Raschka suggests deepening statistical learning knowledge using one of three named books in a personal reading/study plan. This is an explicit reading-list context, not mere course bibliography.

Historical personal study plan. Publisher confirms Hastie/Tibshirani/Friedman secondedition2009; no newer edition asserted.

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Sebastian Raschka · undated · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Historical personal study-plan recommendations

Raschka suggests deepening statistical learning knowledge using one of three named books in a personal reading/study plan. This is an explicit reading-list context, not mere course bibliography.

Publisher-hosted attributed endorsement with explicit reader-facing instruction; the endorsement date is not given. Huyen is the recommender; Raschka is the author.

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Manning · undated publisher endorsement · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Publisher-hosted attributed endorsement

Manning attributes reader-facing guidance to Chip Huyen in its endorsements for this 2024 book.

Author-hosted promotional endorsement with reader-facing guidance, accepted by independent preliminary source review. This does not make Huang an AI researcher or imply endorsement of every later online revision.

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Dive into Deep Learning authors · undated author-hosted endorsement · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Author-hosted attributed endorsement

The official book README attributes to Jensen Huang a reader-facing endorsement saying the book deserves attention from anyone wanting to understand deep learning.

Author-hosted endorsement, undated, April2020 book; do not imply endorsement of every updated PDF.

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Mathematics for Machine Learning authors · undated · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Author-hosted attributed endorsement

Official authors companion site Testimonies attributes explicit reader recommendation to Pieter Abbeel.

Author-hosted endorsement, undated, 2023 work; not a personal reading-list interview. Avoid endorsement of newer online revisions.

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Kevin P. Murphy · undated · accessed 2026-10-05

Article · Author-hosted attributed endorsement

Attributed original endorsement explicitly recommends sequel to graduate CS students.

Favorable reader-facing technical guidance in his own public post. The current author-hosted update is not asserted as his endorsed edition.

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John Carmack · 2023-12-13 · accessed 2026-10-01

Social post · Own public reading recommendation

Carmack’s post links to the author’s free-book page: https://fleuret.org/francois/lbdl.html. The author warns about unauthorized commercial copies. Later updates are not asserted as Carmack’s endorsed edition.