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On a more practical side, there is a good AI book with a misleading name: Programming Collective Intelligence. Instead of going over some abstract algorithms, it poses a series of practical questions (recommend a movie, calculate optimal price, filter spam) and then shows (with source code!) how to solve them using common AI techniques.

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Appreciate the recommendation (I wrote that)! Honestly the book is very old at this point, it may still be an approachable way to understand what's behind the algorithms but there are much better ways to write the code now.

I wore out my copy. Have you come across any books or course with the same approach but more updated code to recommend?

Are you speaking about just the code samples or commenting on the general approaches used in the book?

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