Foreword

Today’s data scientists and software engineers are spoiled for choice when looking for tools to build machine learning systems. They have a range of new technologies that make it easier than ever to build entire machine learning systems. Considering where we—the machine learning community—started, it’s exciting to see a book that explores how powerful and approachable the current technologies are.

To better understand how we got here, I’d like to share a bit of my own story. They tell me I’m a data scientist, but I think I’m only here by accident. I began as a software person and grew up on Java 1.3 and EJB. I left the software-engineer role at Google a decade ago, although I dabbled in open source and created a recommender system ...

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