I recently had the opportunity to be a technical reviewer for the new Building Machine Learning Systems in Python. As I took part in the book, I won’t write a review like what I did for other books.

First, I have to say that I was impressed by the quality of the content. Although I had some things that I thought were not excellent (I still need to check how my reviews changed the book), it’s the best book I’ve read from Packt so far. It has a good balance between code and comprehension, which is an equilibrium that is rarely achieved.

I don’t think it is possible to write a better book on Machine Learning in Python, unless the ecosystem evolves with new algorithms. Which it will, and it will mean a new edition of the book! Neat!

Open Source software seems for the young generation as sure as the sun rises. And even if I witnessed the emergence of Open Source, I more often than not forget that there was a time when Linux didn’t exist. This recent history brought us a lot, but we may only have handpicked some of this revolution’s fruit. Eric Raymond is one of the guys behind this revolution, and he took some time to think about the changes it brought.

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I’m please to announce a new version for scikits.optimization. The main focus of this iteration was to finish usual unconstrained optimization algorithms.

Changelog

  • Fixes on the Simplex state implementation
  • Added several Quasi-Newton steps (BFGS, rank 1 update…)

The scikit can be installed with pip/easy_install or downloaded from PyPI

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