Timeless Algorithms: The Seminal Papers

Understand the enduring algorithms behind modern AI and data science. Explore the breakthrough algorithms that power modern AI—including Bayes’ prior and posterior beliefs, Fisher’s estimation and likelihood, Shannon’s information gain, and Breiman’s algorithmic modeling. With clarity and rigor, statistics expert Gary Sutton unpacks each concept and explains its practical relevance.

This book explains both the how and the why of the most important data science algorithms. Along with the th...