Prologue 1
Chapter 1 Desperately Seeking Patterns 7
Chapter 2 We Are All Just Numbers Here… 26
Chapter 3 The Bottom of the Bowl 64
Chapter 4 In All Probability 95
Chapter 5 Birds of a Feather 144
Chapter 6 There's Magic in Them Matrices 176
Chapter 7 The Great Kernel Rope Trick 206
Chapter 8 With a Little Help from Physics 242
Chapter 9 The Man Who Set Back Deep Learning (Not Really) 277
Chapter 10 The Algorithm that Put Paid to a Persistent Myth 302
Chapter 11 The Eyes of a Machine 346
Chapter 12 Terra Incognita 382
Epilogue 415
Afterword 431
Acknowledgments 449
Notes 453
Index 473