Deep Learning with Python
by François Chollet · François Chollet
Chollet, the creator of Keras, teaches neural networks through worked Keras examples in computer vision, text, and time series, with chapters on the intuition behind representation learning. Assumes Python fluency but no prior machine learning.
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