Acknowledgments

We wish to thank Manning Publications and everyone there who contributed to the development and production of the book, in particular Susanna Kline, for her patient and consistent guidance throughout the writing process.

Our thanks to Beau Cronin, for writing the foreword. Thanks also to Valentin Crettaz, who gave all chapters a thorough technical proofread. Many other reviewers provided us with helpful feedback along the way: Alain Couniot, Alessandrini Alfredo, Alex Iverson, Arthur Zubarev, David H. Clements, Dean Iverson, Jacob Quant, Jan Goyvaerts, Kostas Passadis, Leif Singer, Louis Luangkesorn, Massimo Ilario, Michael Lund, Moran Koren, Pablo Domínguez Vaselli, Patrick Toohey, Ravishankar Rajagopalan, Ray Lugo, Ray Morehead, Rees Morrison, Rizwan Patel, Robert Diana, and Ursin Stauss.

Mark Fetherolf thanks Craig Carmichael for sharing his machine-learning obsession; and his wife, Patricia, and daughter, Amy, for many years of tolerance.

Henrik Brink would like to thank the founders and the rest of the team at Wise.io for their shared passion for using machine learning to solve real-world problems. He thanks his parents, Edith and Jonny, and his brother and sister for passing on a passion for knowledge and words, and—most important—he’d like to thank his wife, Ida, and his son, Harald, for their love and support.

Joseph Richards also thanks the Wise.io team for their shared enthusiasm for machine learning and endless commitment and energy, which makes coming in to work every day a real treat. He would like to especially thank his parents, Susan and Carl, for teaching him the joy of life-long learning and for instilling in him the values of hard work and empathy. And, most important, he thanks his wife, Trishna, for her endless love, compassion, and support.