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  1. "Probabilistic Machine Learning", Murphy (2012, 2022, 2023)

    MIT licensed PDF drafts published by the author are at github.com/probml/pml-book.

    As the #PML name suggests, these books present #ML from the #probabilistic perspective—that is, ML presented the right way.

    The 2022 and 2023 books (An Introduction and Advanced Topics) are the updated, expanded version of the original 2012 book. The new books provide a comprehensive coverage of ML as it was, circa 2021.

    These books are not only comprehensive in the coverage of ML, they are also self-contained in that they provide all requisite mathematical background, without slapping the reader across the face with fine turns of phrases. They are written in an authentic, genuine, heartfelt style, a bit of a rarity amongst AI/ML publications, today. They are, in my view, the most effective self-study guides for upper-level undergraduate students, beginning graduate students, and experienced IT practitioners who aims to study the concepts in depth—they who are dissatisfied with just making shallow API calls.

    The older book uses MATLAB, and the newer ones use Python. Naturally! But using probabilistic DSLs—Figaro, Church, Anglican, WebPPL, etc.—with these books maybe even more effective.

  2. How does #chromatin reader #TRIM33 control #developmental #cellfate decisions?

    Qiaoran Xi Lab at Tsinghua University finds that its embryonic #stemcell-specific recruitment into #PML #nuclearbodies regulates #Lefty1/2 expression upon #Nodal signaling

    embopress.org/doi/10.15252/emb