I’m looking for online open-source / generously licensed textbooks, papers or tutorials. Think of stuff like: http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/ Why? I’m currently running https://chimu.sh—a collaborative learning platform. Quick explanation: Chimu combines an e-reader with a Stack Overflow-like Q&A forum. As people read, they can view others’ questions and ask their own. Demo here (desktop works best). I need to seed the site with initial content, and I figured LW would be a great place to ask. With this in mind, what are good online tutorials / textbooks that people here have learned from? Is there any book or paper that you wish that you could discuss with your friends?
Sutton and Barto’s Reinforcement Learning textbook: http://incompleteideas.net/book/the-book-2nd.html
Elements of Statistical Learning: https://hastie.su.domains/ElemStatLearn/ as well as the more introductory version: https://www.statlearning.com/
Deep Learning textbook: https://www.deeplearningbook.org/
Bayesian Data Analysis: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/
Database of Free / Open Access Online Computer Science Books, Textbooks, and Lecture Notes (1264 books and growing) Open Textbook Library Evidence-based software engineering and the second half is a self-contained introduction to data analysis; all the code+data.
Every textbook is open source <3
http://libgen.is
Every paper too
http://sci-hub.ru
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If I put everthing on libgen onto my site, I will get sued. So the license is important.